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“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm always losing things.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm no stranger to fucking up.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I room with Louisa. Louisa is older and her hair is like a red-and-gold noisy ocean down her back. There's so much of it, she can't even keep it in with braids or buns or scrunchies. Her hair smells like strawberries; she smells better than any girl I've ever known. I could breathe her in forever.

My first night here, when she lifted her blouse to change for bed, in the moment before that crazy hair fell over her body like a protective cape, I saw them, all of them, and I sucked my breath in hard.

She said, "Don't be scared, little one."

I wasn't scared. I'd just never seen a girl with skin like mine.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“There are so many people who are never coming back.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm running blind, ghosts swallowing me.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“OUT. CUT IT ALL OUT. Cut out my father. Cut out my mother. Cut out missing Ellis. Cut out the man in the underpass, cut out Fucking Frank, the men downstairs; the people on the street with too many people inside them, cut out hungry, and sad and tired, and being nobody and unpretty and unloved, just cut it all out, get smaller and smaller until I was nothing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“... because it is hard enough being a girl in the world, but try being a girl with scars on your skin in the world.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I wish you'd stayed longer. I had so much to tell you. I just know you would have understood.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“The sky is postcard dreamy now, the clouds less full of rain, the sun a little stronger every day.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone seems to have a grip on life but me. When is anything going to get better?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm not a cold fish. I just don't think I matter.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Roar of ocean, swirl of tornado. I'm being swallowed.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“That's how hearts get broken, you know? When you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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