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“Because you don't lose someone once. You lose them hearing a song that reminds you
of their smile. Passing an old landmark. Laughing at a joke they would've laughed at. You lose them infinitely.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time is kind with grief. It takes it from you, piece by piece, till the sorrow is a song you remember the beat of but no longer hear.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I think the worst feeling in the world is telling someone you're in pain and hearing them say there's no wound.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Don’t ask why.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t believe in reasons.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Emotions and I don't have the best relationship. It's a distant, bitter affair-a divorce. Emotions are disgusted by me. They're a gust of wind on the other side of that ledge, and even if they toy with my hair or stroke my skin, I ignore them. Emotions are with the ghosts I buried, husks of what they were, hollow hauntings.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Love gives people the power to be treacherous. Being hurt by someone you share such a thing with is draining-a needle under the skin or a knife in the rib. Hate is a choice. Love is not. Theres nothing so out of our control as that.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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

“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I cut because I can't deal. It's as simple as that. The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“+"I think u are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when u don’t know how to be.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“... 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

“Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“There is being alone. And then there is being alone. They are not the same thing at all.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Because while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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

“I think of those photographs taken inside waves, the ones with surfers in slick suits on boards coasting through the tunnel of water, eyes wide. I think they must feel protected inside that curl of water, inside the sudden silencing of the world, even if only for a few minutes.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“We want to destroy ourselves in order to create. To see if that's beautiful, too.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Their stoies are eating them alive, turning them inside out. They cannot stop talking.
I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Once you start cutting or burning or fucking because you feel so shitty and unworthy, your body stars to release this neat-feeling shit called endorphins and you feel so fucking high the world is like cotton candy atcthe best and most colorful state fair in the world, only bloody and stuffed with infection. -pg 31”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“because while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don’t have anymore.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so… momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I’d like to be that turtle, underwater, quiet, no one around. What a fucking peaceful life that turtle has.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“It could be disappointment, too, Tiger, and you need to prepare yourself for that. But if it's disappointing, it doesn't have to be devastating, does that make sense? Life has this, life has that, and then something else comes along again, like a wave. We ride the waves. You go down, you go up, you go down, sometimes you just drift.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Write me a letter telling me how to live for the rest of my life without you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984