Lisa

“For me, being a survivor has made me a reluctant participant/observer in my own inner struggle between wanting that to be the most important fact of my life and wanting it to be the least important.”
― Carla Fine, No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One

“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

“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

“I love him, love him. He's a millstone round my neck - he'll take me to the bottom with him. But I love this millstone of mine - I can't live without it.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard