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“Up until now, my entire adult life has been a prison, and I’ve been the only one who could release me.”
― Trisha Paytas, The Stripper Diaries

“We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“Oh shit, maybe I am crazy. But if you stop to think about it, do crazy people take the time to ask themselves if they are crazy?”
― Megan Marie, Behind the Cuts

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off’?”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“I hate the “but they’re family” BS that older people always try to push. Just because she’s your mom doesn’t mean you need to put up with toxic behavior.”
― Anne Taylor, What it takes to lose

“My mom didn’t deserve her pedestal. She was a narcissist. She refused to admit she had any problems,”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“We’re all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“Anorexia is a disease. You can keep it in remission if you do the right things, but there is no cure. There’s a line that you cross with any compulsive behavior. Once you cross that line, there’s no going back. If you work hard, you can recover, but you’ll always have to stay on your guard.”
― Anonymous, Letting Ana Go

“Hunger becomes a drug, and I’m addicted to it.  When I don’t eat I feel superior to everyone around me.”
― Julia Mazzucato, Undisordered: An Eating Disorder Story

“From Hesiod’s poem to Nyx “There also stands the gloomy house of Night;
ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness.
Before it Atlas stands erect and on his head
and unwearying arms firmly supports the broad sky,
where Night and Day cross a bronze threshold
and then come close and greet each other.”
 (Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.)”
― P.C. Cast, The House of Night Series: Books 1-12

“Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; hearken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night!”
― P.C. Cast, The House of Night Series: Books 1-12

“When I’m drunk, all of my worries disappear—hating my body, the shame I feel about my eating habits, coping with my dying mother,”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“It’s so annoying, eating-disorder brain. Anytime I’m having a conversation with someone over a meal, there’s another conversation happening internally—judgments and criticisms and self-loathing that press on me with such severity.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“your tongue is your sword.)”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“The Greek root of the word “zodiac,” by the way, literally means “circle of little animals.”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

“Berserker, in Old Norse, literally meant “bear shirt,”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

“Music is in our blood. It’s in our soul.”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

“Music is…well, it’s life.”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

“I will be as wild as I wanna be.”
― Rachel Cohn, Gingerbread

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You’re a ghost with a beating heart.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I never thought Nikki Sixx would live beyond the third Mötley Crüe album. People like me, Bowie and Elton John were professional abusers but Nikki went further than us–he used needles, which we never dared to do. I knew Jim Morrison well and Nikki reminded me a lot of him. When Jim died at twenty-seven, we weren’t shocked because he had died; we were shocked that he had got that far in the first place. —Alice Cooper”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“As far as my mom was concerned, she’d never done anything wrong. It kind of left our conversation nowhere to go. The only way to progress it would have been if I’d said, “Yes, you’re right. Everything that happened in my life was my fault, or my grandmother Nona’s fault, or my grandfather Tom’s fault.” I couldn’t say that because it wasn’t true. She’d had a part in it. Plus, I just don’t operate like that . . . I’ll meet you halfway, but you have to meet me, too.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“(also, because drunk people are annoying as fuck).”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Damn it, I needed to stop getting this turned on at work.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“I have no regrets about publicly claiming you. Claiming me? Oh, god. No, vagina, do not quiver at that. Damn it. Not you, too, ovaries.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. —JOHN STEINBECK, EAST OF EDEN”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

“We assume the people around us are who they claim to be. That they have our best interests at heart. That they care. But all too often”
― Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals