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“I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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