- “Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.” ~Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
- I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. ~Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
- It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. –Adam Haslett, “The Volunteer”
- I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood. But you wouldn’t read it. ~written by Molly Ringwald’s character in Surviving
- I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow. ~Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna
- I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn’t do that to my family, my friends … But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that’s a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell. ~Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface
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