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“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”

Pain Sadness Revolutionary Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“My body is on fire all the time, burning me away day and night. I have to cut the black heat out. When I clean myself, wash and mend, I feel better ... I'm so lonely in the world I want to peel my flesh all off and walk, just bone and gristle, into the river to be swallowed ...”

Sadness Depression Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“... I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore.”

Sadness Depression Emptiness Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”

Pain Cutting Mental Health Stigma Speaking Self Harm Breaking Silence Undoing Stigma

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I believe if you can walk into the darkness, then you have the strength to walk back out.”

Hope Mental Health Addiction Teenager Self Harm

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.”

Love Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“There are too many people in my head. I claw at my body to get them out, to peel out the blackness spreading inside me. I’m running blind, ghosts swallowing me.”

Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“They should tell you, right when you get here, that that part of wishing is over. What we’ve done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.”

Love Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Louisa Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“My body is on fire all the time, burning me away dry and night. I have to cut the black heat out. When I clean myself, wash and mend, I feel better. Cooler inside and calm. Like moss feels, when you get far back in the woods.”

Self Harm Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”

Depression Self Harm Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

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