Amber Bailey

“But psychiatry is different. You can’t see delusional disorder, you can’t feel bipolar. There is no blood test for depression. No X-rays can reveal the jagged cracks of a person’s mental breakdown. You can’t hold a stethoscope to someone’s head and hear the voices.”
― Benji Waterhouse, You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

“I learned a long time ago that if I didn’t put myself first, nobody else was going to. Forgiving people who repeatedly let you down is like sticking your hand in a fire over and over and expecting it to not keep burning you.”
― Hannah Grace, Wildfire

“my deep-rooted abandonment issues mean I’ll never expect more than the bare minimum from a man, and how my father’s blatant disinterest in my existence has given me a stifling fear of rejection, which has shaped every romantic interaction I have,”
― Hannah Grace, Wildfire

“I like weird. It’s better than normal.”
― Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire