“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
“There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us.”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.”
― Hold Still
― Hold Still
“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― The Voyage Out
― The Voyage Out
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