It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

We couldn’t imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Hermann Hesse

If you stop caring, you’re jaded. If you care too much, it’ll ruin you.
Jennifer Jareau

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can’t see the pain someone feels.
Jennifer Shin

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realise that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain

I should go now quietly,
For my bones have found a place to lie down and sleep.
Where all my layers can become reeds,
All my limbs can become trees.
Daughter

I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.
Winona Ryder

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our own hell.
Oscar Wilde

I do not want to be afraid,
I do not want to die inside just to breathe in.
I’m tired of feeling so numb.
Relief exists I find it when,
I am cut.
Plumb

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb

I’ve gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won’t even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that’s the end of my day.
Fiona Apple