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Lorrie Umbac

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“You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.”
― Marilee Strong, A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

tags: cutting, nurture, self-injury, self-mutilation

129 likes

“Told I talked too much
made too much noise

I took up a silent hobby—
Bleeding.”
― S. Marie

tags: self-injury

30 likes

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut

tags: cutting, disappointment, expectations, hope, life, strategy

611 likes

“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
― Magenta Periwinkle, Cutting Class

tags: bullying, coming-of-age, cutting, cutting-class, first-love, geeks, goth, love, magenta-periwinkle, nerds, sentimental-bulls-t, teen-agnst, weirdo, weirdos, young-adult

295 likes

“A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint”
― Amy Efaw, After

tags: cutting, self-harm, stress

167 likes

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