Shawna Blacksher

“Every note played is a life and death.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

So the opportunity to be incarcerated was just too good to resist. It was a very big No—the biggest No this side of suicide.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~”
― Rachel Caine, Carpe Corpus