I'm going to smile like nothings wrong, talk like everything's perfect, act like its all a dream, and pretend its not hurting me.


You go on in life because another day rolls around and expects things of you.
~Skin Game: a memoir, Caroline Kettlewell pg22


Why? that's the question you always come back to, the tough one. Why cut? Why of all things, take a razor blade to my skin?
~Skin Game: A memoir pg58


You have to act crazy in crazy ways, after all, to look crazy.
~Skin Game pg70


It is desire that makes us suffer.
~Buddhist Saying


I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin


The size of the cut mattered less than the volume of blood.


I'd discovered a way to control my feelings.
~Bloodletting pg7