The Long Suicide Quotes

“The ALL or Nothing, You Love Me-You Hate Me-I am Everything-I am Nothing. I want to Live. I want to Die, became the Curse of her life.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“The power of an illusion or delusion is that the mind races and the heart pounds in fear of the imagined, the unreal truth. During psychosis and extreme mental illness, the mind’s reality undergoes a breach; and the mind, the Great Fort, is itself broken.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“Troubled and confused teenagers use suicide to cry out for help. The ideation sets them up for the act of crying out to everyone in their environment that something is wrong”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“The outer semblance of what normal looks like, is deceptive when you come out of a storm. When you come out of a turbulent storm, half-drowned like a wet rat, everything looks normal. Is it dry land? Then it is normal, you say to yourself. T”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“Traumatized children who grow up in households in which one dominant abuser takes all the power for himself, learn to identify with power as a special need, like a missing nutrient for their souls.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“There was a silent lesson taught in the house of Thomas Niles, one was the shoe always drops, so each time you allowed your mind to let down its guard and relax, the shoe fell, repeatedly.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“There is nothing quite as painful, or hopeless as losing a loved one to an addiction that you are not familiar with, it is like fighting for your loved one’s life with a stranger in a mask, and no resolution in sight.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel