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“We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I hadn’t realized I was crying. I don’t really feel sad. I don’t really feel anything.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“You know, if you want to be happier, you have to try. You have to put in the effort. Your problem is that you don’t try.” I do try. I have tried. I have tried for sixteen years.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“If this is the best time of my life, I might as well end it immediately.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I kept peeling off layers of my personality, but I seemed to be going in circles. Every time I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything any more.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I don't want people to be worried about me. There's nothing to worry about. I don't want people to try and under why I'm the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don't understand yet. I don't want people to interfere. I don't want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I've always hated being asked if I'm OK. The available answers are either to lie and say I'm fine, or to massively and embarrassingly overshare.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Radio's trapped in Universe City. And someone's finally heard him. Someone is going to rescue him.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“You're gonna be OK. There's nothing you have to do except be.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Just because someone smiles doesn’t mean that they’re happy.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Sometimes I wish I were a normal human being. But I can't. I'm not. No matter how hard I try.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“We all get along fine, but I don't feel like we ever talk about anything important.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“Hope is the thing you lose before you lose everything else.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

“Do you think your mom and dad parent out of love or fear?”
― Joanna Ho, The Silence that Binds Us

“You are carrying so many heavy feelings. There just isn’t enough room for them all.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“It is not that we thought our way was better. It was that we did not know another way.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“What had she done to her brother, so that she could survive, so that she could be the one who thrived?”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“The boys’ hands hold me under, my ears pop & my eyes add water to the flood as the boys waterfall hateful words at me.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Half the time you refuse to even acknowledge that I have a fucking mental illness and the other half you try as hard as possible to make me feel like I'm the last person you ever wanted as a child!”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“We don’t see our cousins more than a few times a year, but it had become clear to me over recent years that they are very much unlike Charlie and me. Mainly because they seen determined to be friendly and fun all the time.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I walk up to her, and her face looks like stone. Like ice, maybe. There’s a pause, and then she says, ‘You know, I am trying my best.’
I know she is, but her best isn’t really good enough, and it shouldn’t be about how she feels anyway.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“There comes a point when you can't keep looking after other people anymore. You have to start looking after yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“He’ being unfair, but I don’t have any right to be annoyed at him.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I know I probably should. I should explain about the argument with Mum and all the arguments we've had over the past few weeks. I should explain how difficult it is to keep trying to do better when there are so many people who just refuse to understand how hard it is. I should explain that I barely slept last night because I was so anxious about dinner and, even though I actually did well, I still feel like everyone was watching me, waiting for me to fuck up and ruin the day.
But it's so much easier to just not think about it.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“The middle ground isn’t hard. It’s just being there. Being helpful, if help is needed. Being understanding, even if they don’t understand everything.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“love was an opportunity, not a burden.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay