Lisa

“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

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“There is such a thing as the worst day of a life, and please, dear universe, I do not want anything ever to top it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars