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“I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness.”
― Skin Game
― Skin Game
“It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was
able to love myself for hating myself. It seemed like a warped sense of
love. But it was love without conditions.”
― Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter
able to love myself for hating myself. It seemed like a warped sense of
love. But it was love without conditions.”
― Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter
“The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.”
― Skin Game
― Skin Game
“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”
― The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
― The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time, taken that fateful step off the precipice, then almost any reason was a good enough reason, almost any provocation was provocation enough. Cutting was my all-purpose solution.”
― Skin Game
― Skin Game
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