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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #2
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #3
    E.B. White
    “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    E.B. White

  • #4
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #6
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

  • #7
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #8
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #9
    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #10
    “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
    Juliette Lewis

  • #11
    Jasmine Warga
    “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

  • #12
    Jenny  Lawson
    “When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
    Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

  • #13
    John Green
    “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #14
    T.J. Klune
    “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #15
    Emm Roy
    “Mental illness

    People assume you aren’t sick
    unless they see the sickness on your skin
    like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.

    My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
    Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
    Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
    Have you tried being more like me?
    Have you tried shutting up?

    Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
    and yes, I am still sick.

    Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
    sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
    Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
    does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
    Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

    Telling me there is no problem
    won’t solve the problem.

    This is not how miracles are born.
    This is not how sickness works.”
    Emm Roy, The First Step

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #18
    Sylvia Plath
    “I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #19
    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #20
    Cheryl Rainfield
    “Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
    Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

  • #21
    Amy Efaw
    “In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”
    Amy Efaw, After

  • #22
    Emilie Autumn
    “I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
    I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
    I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
    I shone because I thought you loved me...”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

  • #23
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #24
    “You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time, taken that fateful step off the precipice, then almost any reason was a good enough reason, almost any provocation was provocation enough. Cutting was my all-purpose solution.”
    Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game

  • #25
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #26
    Bessel van der Kolk
    “When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.”
    Bessel A. van der Kolk

  • #27
    “I hurt myself,” Syren bit out. “I make myself bleed and it feels good. It eases the pressure inside me, but it never lasts for long.” His lips trembled. “Before I slept in your bed, I’d never had a full night’s sleep. Before I crawled into your arms I’d never been safe.” He shuffled forward. “You give me that. You hold that power and you can take it away.”
    Avril Ashton, A Sinner Born

  • #28
    Emily Andrews
    “Oh God just look at me now... one night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... this... I am not here. This is not happening. Oh wait, it is, isn't it?

    I am a ghost. I am not here, not really. You see skin and cuts and frailty...these are symptoms, you known, of a ghost. An unclear image with unclear thoughts whispering vague things...

    If I told you what was really in my head, you''d never let me leave this place. And I have no desire to spend time in hell while I'm still, in theory, alive.”
    Emily Andrews, The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

  • #29
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “... it's remembering what it's like to cut, and cut hard. The way you have to dig the glass in, deeply, right away, to break the skin and then drag, and drag fiercely, to make a river worth drowning in.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #30
    Shane L. Koyczan
    “I can't stop.”
    Shane Koyczan, Stickboy



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