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“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.

My mother went through it.

I went through it.

I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.

I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“My mother said the first boy—or man—is a crush.
You think you love them, but what you really love is how they make you feel. It’s not love. It’s lust. Lust for attention. Lust for danger. Lust to feel special. (...) The second is to learn about yourself. Your first crush has been crushed. You’re sad, but most of all, you’re angry. Angry enough to not let it happen again. (...) Love. When the lessons of your weakness with number one and your selfishness with number two sink in, and you find a medium. When you know who you are and you’re ready to welcome everything he is, and you’re not afraid anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“When you’re cared for, you care for others.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Sometimes, we all need to hide.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“You're going to drive five miles just to give me a hug?"
"I'd run five miles just to give you a hug.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“But even monsters can’t survive without a heart beating inside their chest.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“When I think about Ryle hitting you… I get absurdly angry. Because I love him. I do. He’s been my best friend since we were kids. But I also hate him for not being better. Nothing you have done and nothing you could do would excuse any man’s hands on you out of anger. Remember that, Lily. You made the right choice by leaving that situation. You should never feel guilty for that. Pride is the only thing you should feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Here comes the gaslighting. He's attempting to make me feel crazy for being scared, even though my fear is more than warranted.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I am trying to see things in perspective. My dog wants a bite of my peanut butter chocolate chip bagel. I know she cannot have this, because chocolate makes dogs very sick. My dog does not understand this. She pouts and wraps herself around my leg like a scarf and purrs and tries to convince me to give her just a tiny bit. When I do not give in, she eventually gives up and lays in the corner, under the piano, drooping and sad. I hope the universe has my best interest in mind like I have my dog’s. When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself: "Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt.”
― Blythe Baird

“Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.”
― Blythe Baird, Give Me A God I Can Relate To

“You could literally saw a woman in half

and it would still be called a magic trick.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I don’t know how to talk
about the rabbit hole

without accidentally inviting you
to follow me down it.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I am embarrassed

instead of proud

of all the mad things I have done

for happiness”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“Remember:
you did the best you could
in the situation you were in
with the materials you had.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“If your body could speak

would she
forgive you?”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“We understood the many ways a mother's shame can haunt a daughter's body.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable. ”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
But it's a lie.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls