“Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.'
'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.'
'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve.”
― A Long Way Down
'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.'
'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve.”
― A Long Way Down
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
― This Savage Song
― This Savage Song
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Ways of Escape
― Ways of Escape
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