The Day I Died Quotes

“I had lived. And living meant that I had tried to kill myself and failed. It wasn’t even a possibility I had considered before now. I’d always known I couldn’t do anything right, but killing myself? I thought I’d at least be able to succeed with that.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“I’m not weak like your mother. You don’t fool me with your manipulations. I know you just did this for attention, to make your mother and my lives miserable, and I’m not going to let you get away with it.” I glared right back at him and let the sarcasm drip thickly. “Because everything I do in my life is about you.” I didn’t need them. I didn’t need any of them. All I needed was my dad back with me again. He would have punched Roger for talking this way, even if he called me stupid afterwards for believing his words. “Shut up!” He shouted and then let go of me, looking back and forth, paranoid that someone had heard our exchange.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“But you could have brought me with you when you divorced! I still needed you!”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Why would you think such a thing? I’m your father and I will always be here for you.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Of course I remember, but I never thought I’d see you again. I thought you were gone.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Sometimes living is harder than dying, but that doesn't mean that being alive isn't worth it.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“It’s like there’s less color in everything. The sky is darker. The world is dimmer. Things that used to be fun, like singing, just make me tired now. I’ve been trying so hard for so long now that I deserve to rest. It’s selfish for you to ask me to withstand it when I can barely get out of bed most days.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“The details were right, but a small voice in the back of my head nagged that everything was still wrong. Time was running out. I could hear the clock ticking in my head, but I didn’t know what happened at the end of its countdown.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“I know that it is silence that kills people, silence that rips people apart,”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Maybe it wasn’t anyone’s fault. Maybe people just like to blame others for someone’s death because it makes it easier to deal with when they can be mad at someone. Maybe the only thing to blame for suicide is depression.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“And despite me wanting to resist, I felt a teeny, tiny part of my heart light up with reassurance.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“long now that I deserve to rest. It’s selfish for you to ask me to withstand it when I can barely get out of bed most days.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“It’s like there’s less color in everything. The sky is darker. The world is dimmer. Things that used to be fun, like singing, just make me tired now. I’ve been trying so hard for so”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“It was a tightness in my chest, yet a hole where something should be that wasn’t there, and a light-headedness as if I were watching everything happening to me without truly experiencing it.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“No, I just swallowed three bottles of pain reliever and sleeping pills because I thought they would make me high.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Her lower lip trembled and she put down what remained of her food. “Fuck you.”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died

“Roger said. “It’s just too bad that your mother found you on the floor in time. Her life really would be better without you in it.” It would have hurt less if he’d just smacked me in the face instead. “And I’ll be much happier when I don’t have to live with you anymore,” I said. “Why do you think I tried to kill myself? It was to get away from you!” His words terrified me more than anything else. Would she really be happier without me?”
― E.B. Black, The Day I Died