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“How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors that lies between them. How can she explain that she is terrified of such a thing happening. That although she thought she wanted freedom from her implements, she doesn't know if she can handle what she's experiencing now. That she wants to know that she is still in charge of her grief. That her blades have always done her bidding.”
― Willow
― Willow
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
like I always thought I would.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
“In the end, if we could ever really pursue the question 'why' to its true headwaters, we might find it is often no more than this: a beginning so trifling that it hardly bears notice. The flip of a switch. The flash of a neurotransmission. Maybe there was always something amiss, like a bulb planted and forgotten that blooms when the season is right.
...A thousand girls could have gotten through my seventh grade and breezed on with a laugh; I didn't.”
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...A thousand girls could have gotten through my seventh grade and breezed on with a laugh; I didn't.”
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