“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

“Learn to be alone and to like it. There’s nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.”

“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”

“My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.”

“You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live.”

“Trying to convince myself I am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when I was born to use my right.”

“What is an “instant” death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”

“I’m afraid that my mind isn’t safe. I’m afraid that I’m not safe.”

“The most memorable people in your life will be the ones who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”

“With bloodshot eyes and bloodstained hands, all I can hear are cries from people I loved at lostland. Too much time has passed and I know you are long gone. This fight will be my last if I am on my own.”

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”