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“An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.”

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

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Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

This book is a candid account of the author's experiences and reflections on the challenges and triumphs encountered in the quest for personal development and identity. more

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Hugh Prather

English biography, 120-180 words more

“Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.”

Happens Water Wonder Arms One Day Weight Pressure Hot Winter Extremes Sat Injury Perpetual Exhausted Veins Blades Baths Exhaustion January Elbows Razors Weariness Self Injury Hot Baths

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.”

Ifs Feels Trying Said Today Hurt If I Could Injury Self Injury

Author:Tori Amos

“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

Made Happens Flesh Injury Scar Self Injury Wounds And Scars

Book:The Favourite Game

Source: The Favourite Game

“I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.”

Spiritual Grew Grew Up Clubs Stomping

Author:Eric Clapton

“My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.”

Two Names Left Blood Injury Worn Wrists Tag Self Injury

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.”

Felt White Blood Peaceful Injury Drained Self Injury

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.”

Stills Enough Cutting Decades Flesh Injury Scar Ripped Self Injury

Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”

Men Believe Stills I Believe Hell Alive Eternal Injury Damnation Self Injury

Book:A Season in Hell and Other Poems

Source: A Season in Hell and Other Poems

“The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.”

Body Ignorant Injury Mute Cleansing Self Injury

Book:Snapshots: 20th century mother-daughter fiction

Source: Snapshots: 20th century mother-daughter fiction

“The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.”

World Mean Pain Together United Secret Bears Members Mark Injury Anguish Fellowship Physical Pain Self Injury

Book:The Primeval Forest

Source: The Primeval Forest

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