Lily Berghold

“I cut because I can't deal. It's as simple as that. The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“It's humiliating begging complete strangers for help. I don't like relying on charity"
"We do what we can" Danijela said. "One day, if we survive this, we will even the score. We'll do our best to help others.”
― Allayne L. Webster, Paper Planes