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  • #1
    Ned Vizzini
    “Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #2
    Andrea Gibson
    “and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
    the first time his fingers touched the keys
    the same way a soldier holds his breath
    the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
    We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
    Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
    “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #4
    Andrea Gibson
    “I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
    Tell me why you loved them,
    then tell me why they loved you.

    Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through.
    Tell me what the word home means to you
    and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mother’s name
    just by the way you describe your bedroom
    when you were eight.

    See, I want to know the first time you felt the weight of hate,
    and if that day still trembles beneath your bones.

    Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain
    or bounce in the bellies of snow?
    And if you were to build a snowman,
    would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms
    or would leave your snowman armless
    for the sake of being harmless to the tree?
    And if you would,
    would you notice how that tree weeps for you
    because your snowman has no arms to hug you
    every time you kiss him on the cheek?

    Do you kiss your friends on the cheek?
    Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad
    even if it makes your lover mad?
    Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion
    or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

    See, I wanna know what you think of your first name,
    and if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mother’s joy
    when she spoke it for the very first time.

    I want you to tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind.
    Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel.
    Tell me, knowing I often picture Gandhi at ten years old
    beating up little boys at school.

    If you were walking by a chemical plant
    where smokestacks were filling the sky with dark black clouds
    would you holler “Poison! Poison! Poison!” really loud
    or would you whisper
    “That cloud looks like a fish,
    and that cloud looks like a fairy!”

    Do you believe that Mary was really a virgin?
    Do you believe that Moses really parted the sea?
    And if you don’t believe in miracles, tell me —
    how would you explain the miracle of my life to me?

    See, I wanna know if you believe in any god
    or if you believe in many gods
    or better yet
    what gods believe in you.
    And for all the times that you’ve knelt before the temple of yourself,
    have the prayers you asked come true?
    And if they didn’t, did you feel denied?
    And if you felt denied,
    denied by who?

    I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
    on a day you’re feeling good.
    I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
    on a day you’re feeling bad.
    I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
    could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.

    If you ever reach enlightenment
    will you remember how to laugh?

    Have you ever been a song?
    Would you think less of me
    if I told you I’ve lived my entire life a little off-key?
    And I’m not nearly as smart as my poetry
    I just plagiarize the thoughts of the people around me
    who have learned the wisdom of silence.

    Do you believe that concrete perpetuates violence?
    And if you do —
    I want you to tell me of a meadow
    where my skateboard will soar.

    See, I wanna know more than what you do for a living.
    I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving,
    and if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes.
    I wanna know if you bleed sometimes
    from other people’s wounds,
    and if you dream sometimes
    that this life is just a balloon —
    that if you wanted to, you could pop,
    but you never would
    ‘cause you’d never want it to stop.

    If a tree fell in the forest
    and you were the only one there to hear —
    if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound,
    would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist,
    or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

    And lastly, let me ask you this:

    If you and I went for a walk
    and the entire walk, we didn’t talk —
    do you think eventually, we’d… kiss?

    No, wait.
    That’s asking too much —
    after all,
    this is only our first date.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #5
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #6
    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #9
    D.D. Barant
    “I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
    D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

  • #10
    “Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”
    Kim Namjoong

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #12
    “When I die
    Give what’s left of me away
    To children
    And old men that wait to die.

    And if you need to cry,
    Cry for your brother
    Walking the street beside you
    And when you need me,
    Put your arms
    Around anyone
    And give to them
    What you need to give to me.

    I want to leave you something,
    Something better
    Than words
    Or sounds.

    Look for me
    In the people I’ve known
    Or loved,
    And if you cannot give me away,
    At least let me live in your eyes
    And not on your mind.

    You can love me most
    By letting
    Hands touch hands
    By letting
    Bodies touch bodies
    And by letting go
    Of children
    That need to be free.

    Love doesn’t die,
    People do.
    So, when all that’s left of me
    Is love,
    Give me away”
    Merrit Malloy

  • #13
    Gena Showalter
    “I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
    Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

  • #14
    Ned Vizzini
    “People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #15
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    Confucius

  • #16
    Richelle Mead
    “A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around."
    "Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.”
    Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

  • #17
    John  Green
    “Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
    John Green

  • #18
    Gerard Way
    “This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka!”
    Gerard Way

  • #19
    Andrea Gibson
    “I’m never gonna wait
    that extra twenty minutes
    to text you back,
    and I’m never gonna play
    hard to get
    when I know your life
    has been hard enough already.
    When we all know everyone’s life
    has been hard enough already
    it’s hard to watch
    the game we make of love,
    like everyone’s playing checkers
    with their scars,
    saying checkmate
    whenever they get out
    without a broken heart.
    Just to be clear
    I don’t want to get out
    without a broken heart.
    I intend to leave this life
    so shattered
    there’s gonna have to be
    a thousand separate heavens
    for all of my flying parts.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #20
    Andrea Gibson
    “To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #21
    Andrea Gibson
    “I can guarantee a haircut will never tell you anything about someone's gender, who they love, or how they fuck.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #22
    Andrea Gibson
    “You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.”
    Andrea Gibson, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

  • #23
    Andrea Gibson
    “This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.”
    Andrea Gibson, When The Bough Breaks

  • #24
    “The idea of losing something is toying with the idea of having it in the first place, so I suppose I’ll be alright.”
    Matty Healy

  • #25
    “Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.”
    Jeon Jungkook

  • #26
    “Living without passion is like being dead.”
    Jeon Jungkook

  • #27
    “I think I realized a lot of things. When it comes to loving yourself, I think it’s about asking yourself a lot of questions and learning more about who you are. I think that’s the foundation and beginning of learning to love yourself” - Jimin told fans what he learned about loving yourself.”
    Serene Pae, K-Drama : Best Quotes on Life, Love & Happiness: Including Inspirational Quotes from K-pop group BTS and Blackpink

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Where do you think the money went?” he repeated.
    “Guns?” asked Jesper.
    “Ships?” queried Inej.
    “Bombs?” suggested Wylan.
    “Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
    He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #29
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Black is the color that is no color at all.
    Black is the color of a child's still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night-the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky.
    It is a road. A forgotten night sky broken up by faded stars.
    It is the barrel of a new gun, leveled at your heart.
    The color of Chubs's hair, Liam's bruises, Zu's eyes.
    Black is a promise of tomorrow, bled dry from lies and hate.
    Betrayal.
    I see it in the face of a broken compass, feel it in the numbing grip of grief.
    I run, but it is my shadow. Chasing, devouring, polluting. It is the button that should never have been pushed, the door that shouldn't have opened, the dried blood that couldn't be washed away. It is the charred remains of buildings. The car hidden in the forest, waiting. It is the smoke.
    It is the fire.
    The spark.
    Black is the color of memory.
    It is our color.
    The only one they'll use to tell our story.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #30
    Shannon L. Alder
    You Chose

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    You chose to give away your love.
    You chose to have a broken heart.
    You chose to give up.
    You chose to hang on.

    You chose to react.
    You chose to feel insecure.
    You chose to feel anger.
    You chose to fight back.
    You chose to have hope.

    You chose to be naïve.
    You chose to ignore your intuition.
    You chose to ignore advice.
    You chose to look the other way.
    You chose to not listen.
    You chose to be stuck in the past.

    You chose your perspective.
    You chose to blame.
    You chose to be right.
    You chose your pride.
    You chose your games.
    You chose your ego.
    You chose your paranoia.
    You chose to compete.
    You chose your enemies.
    You chose your consequences.

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

    Choose to let go.
    Choose dignity.
    Choose to forgive yourself.
    Choose to forgive others.
    Choose to see your value.
    Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
    Choose to make us proud.”
    Shannon L. Alder



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