February 2012
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel...”
– Sylvia Plath
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand
“Isn’t it odd how some people can smile all day long, but cry their self to sleep...”
– Unknown
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“How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God
“It’s really sad to know that girls are growing up wanting only to be skinny and...”
– Anonymous
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“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Looking back, I stopped writing in my notebook when I stopped wanting to know...”
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
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“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. I want to eat...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– Don DeLillo
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience...”
– Jane Eyre
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
“No one is free. Even the birds are chained to the sky.”
– Bob Dylan
“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall...”
– Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with...”
– Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
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“The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“You have to get hurt. That’s how you learn. The strongest people out there, the...”
– Unknown
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they...”
– Lev Grossman
“It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when...”
– Stephen Chbosky
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our...”
– Paulo Coelho
“Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can’t...”
– Sorachi Hideaki
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take...”
– Unknown
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert