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“I swallow my words. I hide them deep behind my ribs, tucked neatly by my heart, with all the other words I keep.”
― Erin Stewart

“I don't ask about the words he keeps, and I don't tell him mine. Some things are just better left unsaid.”
― Erin Stewart

“What is the point of living when I am so clearly less than human?”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“The strongest people aren’t the ones who are born strong. They’re the ones who know what it’s like to be weak, and have a reason to get stronger. The ones who’ve been hurt. Who’ve had things they love taken from them. The ones with something to fight for.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“As they approach true mastery of the Art of Starving, students will see that eating disorders are merely one part of a broad spectrum of self-harm. Cutting, addiction, suicidal ideation. These are all ways to assert your power. To prove that you're not weak. To show you're strong enough to control your own destiny by destroying yourself.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“I started out thinking I had so much to offer. But I've got nothing to share but the hope that my pain can be helpful to someone.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“I still wasn't entirely convinced that if somebody suddenly gave me the power to snap my fingers and cease to exist, I wouldn't use it.

I wasn't suicidal anymore. But once you go there, once your mind has seriously weighed it as a possibility, it never really goes away. It's always there - always an option.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“Bad things will happen to you and they won’t be your fault. Life is a miserable shit-show for lots of very good people. Lots of very evil people have it easy in life. When bad things happen, it doesn’t help to blame yourself, or wish you’d done something differently, or shake your fists at the sky. Accept that the bad things happened, but do not allow them to continue to hurt you. Bad things will also happen to you that will be your fault. Part of being Better is being able to tell the difference.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“This is the hardest rule. The one I still have to keep repeating. The one I accept, on an intellectual level, but still cannot truly believe. Your body is just a thing. Whether it’s strong or weak or beautiful or ugly is all in your head. In your mind.”
― Sam J. Miller, The Art of Starving

“Sometimes you have to take a few falls to figure out what's worth standing up for.”
― Maisey Yates, Unbroken Cowboy / Cowboy to the Core

“It was the pain in life that sometimes brought you to the place you should have been all along.”
― Maisey Yates, Unbroken Cowboy / Cowboy to the Core

“I think knowing you has shown me how to have some purpose. watching you put meaning into all kinds of things, into a baby robin, it's taught me something. About how when you care, happiness tends to follow.”
― Maisey Yates, Unbroken Cowboy / Cowboy to the Core

“You can't ever know someone completely. You have to be everything to them and that's impossible.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Little kids all love the stars. They want to be astronauts. Explore the universe, see what no one else has ever seen. But then we get older and--we stop looking up. We keep our eyes on the ground and decide to be something realistic.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“She wonders if everyone feels it, this hunger to live every life, to exist as every possible version of herself. ‘There’s always a moment, isn’t there?’ she says, flicking her cigarette end off the fire escape and watching it fall. ‘A moment when you choose. This path, or another one. What if I’d chosen something different?”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“I think we are all forever a mystery to each other.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Thora looks down at her fingers, the rope-like tendons controlling the poor puppet of her body. 'I wish I was more like you. I wish I could see a meaning.'
'I don't see it. I look for it.' His voice is quiet. 'You think it's easy. You think it--comes naturally to me. But it doesn't. I choose it. Every single time.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“All of you wouldn't fit in my mind, or in any simulation. Only the universe can hold you.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“There is no wrong choice", Santi says. "There is just what happens”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Don't go raking through broken glass looking for diamonds.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Someone from a different planet probably wouldn't even put the same stars in constellations with each other.

"Don't they belong together?"

"Not really. Ancient people just thought they did because they made pictures. That's what humans do, I guess. Look up at the sky and see reflections of themselves.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“How do I bear the hurt of being lonely without hating myself at the same time?”
― Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

“I’m remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“You don't make me miserable. You make me want to live. And I want to live with you.”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“Our I love yous encompass years of heartache, of hurt, of laughter and pain. And every time we say the words, I feel the rush of our childhood. I couldn't imagine ever losing that.”
― Becca Ritchie, Ricochet

“You can’t refuse to feel hurt just because you think that you don’t deserve to feel it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“People hope to touch the sky. I dream of kissing it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“Kiss the sky with me,” Connor whispers, a beautiful smile pulling his lips, “and don’t ever come down.”
― Krista Ritchie, Kiss the Sky