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  • #1
    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
    tags: pain, scars, self-harm
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    Richelle Mead
    “I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: cutting, inner-pain, lissa, page-158, self-harm, self-injury, si, understanding
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: breaking-silence, cutting, mental-health, pain, self-harm, speaking, stigma, undoing-stigma
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  • #4
    “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
    tags: coping-mechanism, cutting, self-harm, si
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  • #5
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: cutting, self-harm
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  • #6
    Ricky Maye
    “stars are the scars of the universe”
    ― Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
    tags: abuse, recovery, scars, self-harm, self-help, stars, twloha
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    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
    tags: affect-regulation, anorexia, anorexia-nervosa, coping-mechanisms, cut, cutter, cutting, eating-disorder, eating-disorder-causes, emotional-pain, emotional-regulation, emotional-release, emotionally-numb, gut-wrenching, heartbreak, intolerable, mental-illness, overwhelmed, ptsd, recklessness, self-destructive-behavior, self-harm, self-injury, sex-addiction, starve, traumatic-stress, traumatized
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  • #8
    “The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.”
    ― Amanda Steele, The Cliff
    tags: inspirational, ptsd, rape, self-harm
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  • #9
    Caitlin Moran
    “Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
    tags: self-harm
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  • #10
    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
    tags: pain, revolutionary, sadness, self-harm
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  • #11
    Alison Miller
    “Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.”
    ― Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
    tags: body-memories, cutting, ddnos, dissociation, dissociative-disorder, dissociative-identity-disorder, flashbacks, healing, mind-control, osdd, personality-system, programming, punishments, recovery, ritual-abuse, satanic-ritual-abuse, self-harm, self-injury, suicidal, suicide-attempts, survivors
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    Emily Giffin
    “Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.”
    ― Emily Giffin
    tags: self-harm
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  • #13
    “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
    tags: cutting, fear, kane-ashby, self-harm, si, syren-rua
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  • #14
    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
    tags: cutting, self-harm
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  • #15
    “That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.”
    ― Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game
    tags: cut, cutting, self-harm, self-injury, self-mutilation, si
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  • #16
    Shane L. Koyczan
    “I can't stop.”
    ― Shane Koyczan, Stickboy
    tags: can-t-stop, fun, good-book, self-harm, shane-koyczan, stickboy, style
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  • #17
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “There are too many people in my head. I claw at my body to get them out, to peel out the blackness spreading inside me.
    I’m running blind, ghosts swallowing me.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: charlie, girl-in-pieces, kathleen-glasgow, self-harm
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  • #18
    “I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.”
    ― Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
    tags: depression, self-harm, self-injury, suicide
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    Richelle Mead
    “She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: cutting, lack-of-understanding, page-162, self-harm
    218 likes

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  • #20
    Amy Efaw
    “A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint”
    ― Amy Efaw, After
    tags: cutting, self-harm, stress
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  • #21
    Richelle Mead
    “and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you know? I had to-

    I interrupted her hysteria It's okay, I understand.

    That was a lie. I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die - she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: cutting, lissa, page-162, rose, self-harm, self-injury, si, understanding
    109 likes



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