

“We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.”
― Lady Injury
― Lady Injury

“I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces

“I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren’t just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector. We”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days

“Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all. I’ve got to go somewhere. I’ve got to go. It”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days

“people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― Milk and honey
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― Milk and honey
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