“Is this what all the years of schooling were for? To prepare me for this Sense of being stuck in the middle? What was the point? No one said I was going to be this sad. No one said I would still be crying.” Growing UpDisappointment Book:I Don't Want To Be Crazy Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“Meeting new people feels like dating. I try to find someone I like, casually start a conversation, and hope we have things in common.” DatingMeeting New People Author:Samantha Schutz
“I am grown in so many ways, but in front of my parents I am still a child. I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel. I am the only one who can do it, but I can’t seem to let myself.” Growing UpCollegeBecoming An Adult Book:I Don't Want To Be Crazy Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“I don't think that I am happy, but then again, I don't know. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of living-- of eating, dressing, taking the train to work, that I don't give it enough thought. Maybe happiness is being content. But is it really?” LifeHappinessGrowing UpUncertaintySearching Book:I Don't Want To Be Crazy Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“I'm trying to decide what's worse. Someone being gone, but still out there, or someone being gone forever, dead. I think someone being gone, but still out there, might be worse. Then there’s always the chance, the hoping, the wondering if things might change. If maybe one day he’ll come back. There’s also the wondering about what his new life is like. The life without you. Is he happier? And if he is, you’re left being sad, wondering what it would be like if you were happy with him. But when someone is dead, he’s dead. He’s not coming back. There is no second chance. Death is a period at the end of a sentence. Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis…or a question to be answered.” LoveDeathLoss Book:You Are Not Here Source: You Are Not Here
“A few months ago, leaving for college seemed glamourous, but now it’s hard to believe that this little dorm room, with its scratchy sheets and a lock that sticks, is home. It’s hard to accept that this is my new life, that these are my new friends. I am one in many here. There are dozens here as good as me, even more who are smarter, funnier. And it scares me because before I stuck out and now I blend in.” CollegeMoving AwayMoving Out Book:I Don't Want To Be Crazy Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“I cry and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again” SleepCrySadDepressionDown Book:I Don't Want To Be Crazy Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy