“i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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