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“Stay.

I know the night is heavy,
a weight pressing against your ribs,
the kind of dark that swallows sound,
the kind of silence that feels like drowning.

I know the world has been unkind,
that some days you are nothing
but an open wound,
the wind too sharp,
the light too cruel.

But stay.”
― Avalon Ash, Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work

“Four thousand years ago, an Egyptian wrote out his despair onto papyrus in the form of a narrative and four short-versed poems. This document, now in the Berlin Museum, is thought by British psychiatrist Chris Thomas to be the first suicide note [...]

"Death is before me today
As a man longs to see his house
When he has spent years in captivity.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.”
― Isha Barlas

“If only words hadn't eluded me today, if only I yelled back at him: I do get it! I get that as long as you live no one will ever love you as much as I do - I have a heart so I can give it to you alone! That's exactly the way I feel - but unfortunately, people don't talk like that outside of Victorian novels.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere