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“I want to hurt everyone right now. I want to break things so the world looks like how I feel inside: splintered into a million bloody and sharp pieces.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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“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

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“It's counterintuitive, yes? That hurting yourself makes you feel better. That somehow you can rid yourself of pain by causing yourself pain. -pg 42”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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“You could drink, slice, do meth, snort coke, burn, cut, stab, slash, rip out your eyelashes, or fuck till bleed and It's all the same thing: self-harm. -pg 31”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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“My mother and her raised fist flashes in front of my eyes. I shrink away from Riley, shutting myself off, bracing myself.

There is the person people see on the outside, and then there is the person on the inside and then, even farther down, is that other buried person, a naked and silent creature, not used to light. I have it and now, here, I see it: Riley's hidden person.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

tags: abuse, domestic-violence, mental-health-awareness, self-harm, trauma, violence

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