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  • #1
    Langston Hughes
    “I went down to the river,
    I set down on the bank.
    I tried to think but couldn't,
    So I jumped in and sank.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #2
    Nina LaCour
    “My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
    Nina LaCour, Hold Still

  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #4
    David Hume
    “No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
    David Hume, Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

  • #5
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #6
    Ned Vizzini
    “(...) Since I was a kid."
    "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
    "Right.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story



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