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“I hid my scars, too,
because no one wants to see
the truth that is me”
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because no one wants to see
the truth that is me”
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“I just wanted to feel something. Something real. I saw the razor and I was so numb, and when I cut into myself, it felt--better.”
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“It's a good reminder. Everyone has scars. Some are just easier to see.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“Will they want to stay if they see the wounds and hear all the words I keep?”
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“It's not brave if you're not scared.”
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“When you get to a place where dying seems like the easy way out, that changes you.”
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“People always ask, Why are you depressed? But the boring truth is that nothing is wrong. I feel nothing. I am nothing. When I look into the future, nothing. It’s the nothing that destroys me. People always talk about mental illness like it’s a heroic war with a monstrous disease. But the fact is, we’re fighting ourselves. Just a bunch of smaller battles. Getting up, every day, facing down the beasts because I can never beat them. Because they are me. The best I can do is-Make friends with the monsters.”
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“But there is no lightning bolt of insanity. It’s more like a drizzling leak you don’t even notice until you’re gasping for air, suddenly and irrevocably aware that you’ve drowned in your own thoughts.”
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“Our demons may be smaller, but that doesn't make the fight — or the bravery — any less real.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“There's always beauty in the ashes. Sometimes we just can't see it yet.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“How do I explain where my mind goes? How I float out of myself.”
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“I swallow my words. I hide them deep behind my ribs, tucked neatly by my heart, with all the other words I keep.”
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“The parts that scare you most, that’s where the artist is born, for fear comes from the mind. And art comes from the heart.”
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“But here's the thing about explosions - bombs or supernovas or really anything that erupts in a startling display of grandeur and light: when they're done, and the fire has all burned out and the show is over, they always leave a hole.”
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“Ask me again.
Ask me how I'm doing.
Just ask.
I'll tell.
But he doesn't ask. Instead, he says he's proud of me and stands up, eyes lingering on the bathroom door for a second as the water turns off.
He kisses the top of my head. "What did I ever do to deserve such a perfect daughter?"
My chest deflates. I swallow my words.
I hide them deep behind my ribs, tucked neatly by my heart, with all the other words I keep.”
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Ask me how I'm doing.
Just ask.
I'll tell.
But he doesn't ask. Instead, he says he's proud of me and stands up, eyes lingering on the bathroom door for a second as the water turns off.
He kisses the top of my head. "What did I ever do to deserve such a perfect daughter?"
My chest deflates. I swallow my words.
I hide them deep behind my ribs, tucked neatly by my heart, with all the other words I keep.”
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“If you hold on to the old skin, you’ll never heal.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“Words have power because we give them meaning. Hate. Love. Hope. Anger.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“This week, pay attention to how you talk about yourself. Use words that give you power rather than strip it away.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“This doesn’t mean I almost died. It means I chose to stay.”
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“But that was another lifetime, one where spontaneous choreographed dances and happy endings seemed not only plausible but likely.
At some point, you realize life is not a musical.”
― Scars Like Wings
At some point, you realize life is not a musical.”
― Scars Like Wings
“Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. It just means letting go of the hurt.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“Well, the truth is, if I were okay, I wouldn't be asleep at four in the afternoon. I wouldn't have spent the last week in bed, trying to stay unconscious.”
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“He tells us we're having an assessment quiz and gives a boy in the front row a bunch of papers to hand out to the class. When the boy gets close to me, he hesitates, holding the sheets tentatively, like he's offering a bunny carcass to a rabid dog.”
― Scars Like Wings
― Scars Like Wings
“Piece by piece, I dig out the imperfections.”
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“But with my friends--I'm not broken. I'm just me.”
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“Oh right. That's all I ever hear. 'Look our for Alice.' 'Don't anger Alice.' 'Help Alice.' Alice, Alice, Alice. Do you know what it's like to find your sister on the bathroom floor with a blade pressed to her skin? Do you know what that does to a person?”
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“I'm not really here anymore. I'm watching family time from outside my body. Through the glass, I see them, laughing and placing tiles. I see me, playing my part, smiling when I'm supposed to smile.
But inside my head, the worries have slithered in, uninvited.
This is how it always starts.
With a thought.”
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But inside my head, the worries have slithered in, uninvited.
This is how it always starts.
With a thought.”
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“Everyone will know, once and for all, the Lily I've worked so hard to hide.”
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“The Hundred Acre Wood. It's about acceptance...Piglet and his Anxiety. Rabbit with his OCD rows of carrots...Dyslexic owl and ADHD Tigger. Eeyore and depression. Oh, and don't forget Christopher Robin, the boy whose stuffed animals talk to him. Hello, zschizophrenia!..And they all know Piglet's gonna freak out about the wind. They expect Eeyore to be a dud at the picnic. But they invite him anyway. They help each other, but nobody tries to fix anyone. You're just you and they're just them and that's okay.”
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“I'll be better.
I'll win.
Because if I don't--who am I?”
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I'll win.
Because if I don't--who am I?”
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