“Every morning when I wake up, I don’t think I’m going to make it. Or maybe I think that I don’t want to make it. I’m heavy with what I did the night before and I’m heavy with everything inside me and sometimes it is just too goddamn much to carry around.” FictionPsychologyMental HealthYoung AdultContemporaryMental IllnessRealistic Fiction Book:The Glass Girl Source: The Glass Girl
“Sometimes it feels like I live in a pinball machine and I’m the scratched-up ball, being knocked from one nook to the next, lights blaring, bells ringing. I can never stop the game because I am the game.” FictionPsychologyMental HealthYoung AdultContemporaryMental IllnessRealistic Fiction Book:The Glass Girl Source: The Glass Girl
“You’ve perfected a mask of powder and black eyeliner and a face for people to look at on the outside and maybe it’s not really who you are on the inside, but who wants to see that? That part is too much and not enough. That part is all hollows and a gray, dying heart.” FictionPsychologyMental HealthYoung AdultContemporaryMental IllnessRealistic Fiction Book:The Glass Girl Source: The Glass Girl
“You’ll see that person who took your heart and cleaved it in half and stuffed it in their mouth and swallowed and you want it back and you think you’ll never get it and who can live like that?” FictionPsychologyMental HealthYoung AdultContemporaryMental IllnessRealistic Fiction Book:The Glass Girl Source: The Glass Girl