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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #5
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #6
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “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

  • #7
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #8
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #10
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #11
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    John Green
    “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #13
    John Green
    “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #14
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Marya Hornbacher
    “You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #17
    Marya Hornbacher
    “We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #18
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Why? You want to know why?

    Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

    Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all, "a disappointment." Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and drink and cut because you need the anesthetic and it works. For a while. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's too late because you are mainlining it now, straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

    Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.

    "Why?" is the wrong question.

    Ask "Why not?”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #19
    Marya Hornbacher
    “And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #20
    Marya Hornbacher
    “Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #21
    Maureen Johnson
    “Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
    Maureen Johnson

  • #22
    Maureen Johnson
    “You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”
    Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope

  • #23
    Maureen Johnson
    “The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”
    Maureen Johnson, The Key to the Golden Firebird

  • #24
    John Green
    “What matters to you defines your mattering.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #25
    John Green
    “We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”
    John Green

  • #26
    David Levithan
    “Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #27
    David Levithan
    “If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #28
    David Levithan
    “She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #29
    David Levithan
    “Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over.

    I know how wrong this is.

    When I was a child, I didn't understand. I would wake up in a new body and wouldn't comprehend why things felt muted, dimmer. Or the opposite--I'd be supercharged, unfocused, like a radio at top volume flipping quickly from station to station. Since I didn't have access to the body's emotions, I assumed the ones I was feeling were my own. Eventually, though, I realized these inclinations, these compulsions, were as much a part of the body as its eye color or its voice. Yes, the feelings themselves were intangible, amorphous, but the cause of the feelings was a matter of chemistry, biology.

    It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. But I have seen that strength over and over again.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #30
    David Levithan
    “It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #31
    David Levithan
    “It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.”
    David Levithan, Every Day



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