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“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Nothing is more unbearable, once has it, than freedom.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Move across the country and hope the Sadness won’t find you, won’t follow you like a stray dog from coast to coast. Hope the Sadness isn’t just a fog on a leash, shadowing you always. Hope the Sadness can’t be as fleet as you are, hope the Sadness is more rooted. Perhaps the Sadness has friends, a family, and can’t just pick up and go. Look at all this stuff the Sadness has here in San Jose or Chapel Hill or wherever you’re currently leaving. How’s the Sadness going to survive without all this stuff? Hope this isn’t one of those any-place-I-hang-my-hat-is-home-type situations where the Sadness hangs its hat on you. Hope that you are not the Sadness’s home, anywhere you go, no matter how far, no matter how quickly—the Sadness lives in you. Hope to God it’s not that.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Algumas coisas estão tão embaixo do nosso nariz que a gente não vê direito. E elas, eu quero dizer, essas coisas, estão ali o tempo todo, esperando para que a gente as enxergue.”
― Elayne Baeta, O Amor Não é Óbvio

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Está tudo bem em sermos diferentes. Está tudo bem em sair da margem e deixa de ser a cópia da cópia da cópia.”
― Elayne Baeta, O Amor Não é Óbvio

“Somos um grão de poeira para o universo, mas, para alguém, em algum lugar do mundo, o sol.”
― Elayne Baeta, O Amor Não é Óbvio

“...do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Se alguma coisa tivesse me dado qualquer pista antes, eu poderia pelo menos ter sido apresentada a escolhas diferentes de "ser uma garota hétero perfeita". Só que tudo me empurrou apenas para isso. (...) O mundo só havia me ensinado como ser hétero.”
― Elayne Baeta, O Amor Não é Óbvio

“My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“And then she is kissing me, right here on the sidewalk on a foggy summer night. Violet is kissing me, and everything is perfect. The kiss doesn't end. We are not two girls on a polite first date, bestowing a customary good-night peck.

No.

We are kissing like girls who have ached for each other for years who never even spoke but somehow exchanged I love yous anyway.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet.
That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“A maioria das vidas é longa, e a maioria das dores é curta. Os corações não se partem de verdade, eles sempre continuam batendo”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“É uma coisa ser destruída por outra pessoa, outra bem diferente é ser destruída por si mesma.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“You're never goind to be ready," Lehna says, her voice warming somewhat. "Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“I breathe deep. I look into her eyes. I wish I could take her face in my hands and kiss her, but I know she needs more than that right now. Even though I want to give her everything, I’ve learned enough in the last few days to only promise what I know I can deliver.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“I know that I’m holding myself back. I know that something needs to change, and that I need to be the one to change it. And I know—I know—that if you’re patient with me, what I find on the other end of it, once the towers have burned down, will be you.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“I want a love like that. I want pure and true. I want it with you.”
― Nina LaCour

“I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought. ”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted