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Self Mutilation
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The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those red lines read: 'Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle
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― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
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Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
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