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“I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it; even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself (“counteract feelings of ‘numbness’ ”). I was demonstrating, externally and irrefutably, an inward condition.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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“Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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“It's a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you've had time to create your own to replace it. It's a very specific sort of loneliness.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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“I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin. It worked for a while. Then it stopped; but I had no heart to try again.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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“Sabe, Virgínia, vejo Laura como aquele espelho
despedaçado: a gente pode ir lá no fundo e colar os cacos, mas tudo então que ele vier a refletir, o céu, as árvores, as pessoas, tudo, tudo estará como ele próprio, partido em mil pedaços. Veja bem, triste não é o que possa vir a acontecer...
A morte, por exemplo. Triste é o que está acontecendo neste instante. Ela tem a cabeça doente, o coração doente. E não há remédio. Só o sopro lá dentro é que continua perfeito como o espelho antes de cair no chão.”
― Lygia Fagundes Telles, Ciranda de Pedra

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