Lisa Herself

“La liberté c'est un privilège qu'on ne savoure vraiment qu'après qu'on vous en a privé.”
― Ben Oliver

“De tout oublier pendant quelques minutes. Oublier que la vie est moche ! Qu'elle est comme un bateau sur lequel on est embarqué sans l'avoir voulu. On peut vomir à bord mais on ne peut pas descendre.”
― Jean-Claude Mourlevat, A comme voleur

“Beauty is the minimum," Grayson replied.
But technique without artistic sensibility is worthless.
(He looked down at the rests of the violin he had broken.)
Beauty is a decoy.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“In Group, Casper doesn't like us to say cut or cutting or burn or stab. She says it doesn't matter what you do or how you do it: it's all the same. You could drink, slice, do meth, snort coke, burn, cut, stab, slash, rip out your eyelashes, or fuck till you bleed and it's all the same thing: self-harm. She says: whether someone has hurt you or made you feel bad or unworthy or unclean, rather than taking the rational step of realizing that person is an asshole or a psycho and should be shot or strung up and you should stay the fuck away from them, instead we internalize our abuse and begin to blame and punish ourselves and weirdly, once you start cutting or burning or fucking because you feel so shitty and unworthy, your body starts to release this neat-feeling shit called endorphins and you feel so fucking high the world is like cotton candy at the best and most colorful state fair in the world, only bloody and stuffed with infection. But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces