Jennifer

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Al-Anon’s Three Cs: “You didn’t cause it, you can’t control it, you can’t cure it.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy

“In one of the few memoirs of self-injury, Caroline Kettlewell describes her recovery in terms of neural pathways—the “groove” worn into her mind, the “wrong turns and dark corridors” marked by her history of cutting. Once she learns how to stand “the awful agony of unhappiness” without reverting to the bodily jolt of broken skin, she changes the map of psychological struggle in her mind. “[E]very time I gut it through and survive,” she concludes, “I’m reshaping the structure and the chemistry of my thoughts, wearing new paths less tortured and convoluted than the old ones.”   Cutting”
― Merri Lisa Johnson, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality