"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make
you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to
fight. Never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings

Dedication takes a lifetime and dreams only last for the night
~Stay Awake, All Time Low

(704) : "Tonight I'm turning swine flu into an std this might be how zombies come about. Peace civilization."

everything i needed to know i learned in a shopping mall, don't wander off, know who you are,know where you came from,never let go of your mothers hand, whenever you get lost stand there and wait for someone to find you, and someone will always look fo...r you because someone will always miss you,and when you cry someone will remind you in that soft lullaby voice that sometimes silence is the loudest kind of noise.
~Kelsey Holmes

They have faded but you still shine bright as the sun
--Samantha

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

~Sense and Sensibility, pg 23

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived. At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or, at least, almost so.
~Sense and Sensibility pg 22

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
~sense and sensibility, pg 20

Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behavior gave every indication of an open affectionate heart.
~Sense and Sensibility, pg 17

Its not nice when girls die
~pg 1

Yesterdays dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I'm shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
~pg 7

They branded their war on this skin-bag of a girl.
~pg 9

he wiped me off the face of her existance.
~pg 11

I can't stop, but I can't keep going
~pg 98

We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
~pg 99

I kept thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.
~pg 117

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care...
~pg 166

The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink. I want to choose what I see and what I don't see.
~pg 196

The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when youre not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch
~pg 253

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

She can't help thinking that almost any other reaction would be
preferable, and that it is her own fault that when he looks at her he
doesn't just see a girl... he sees a cutter.
~Willow, Julia Hoban, pg 270

It is far easier to cut herself, to mutilate herself than to tell him
how she feels
~Willow, Julia Hoban, pg 247

Most of all, she can't believe that she let him get under her skin and
mean so goddamn much to her
~Willow, Julia Hoban ph 217

As much as she would love to have kissed him, she is also somewhat relieved that the guard prevented it from happening. Her heart is beating wildly, both from anticipation of how that kiss would have felt, and from fear. Because now she's the one who's scared, very scared. Not of him, but of herself, or rather, of her feelings for him. ~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 217

I worry that my whole life will be based around what's comfortable and
easy. Ill care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really
reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 216
--Samantha

Even if it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed, and not
at something unimportant like school, but at life.
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 216

I realized that what people say, the way they react, tells you more
about them than it does anything else. People may think that they are
offering you condolences or whatever you want to call it, but really,
they're letting you see what they're all about.
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 196

It never ceases to amaze her that even after all her sessions with the
razor, little things still have the power to cause her pain.
~ pg 140, Willow, Julia Hoban

Except the only times she's laughed I the past seven months have been in
his company. When he's with her she's able to forget the lure of the
razor for more than five minutes at a time. And when she talks to him,
she actually feels like she's connecting, not just exchanging words like
she does with everyone else.
~pg 138, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Of course any sharp edge could do in a pinch, and Willow had used them
all: nail scissors, a steak knife, a mans razor- if he doesn't use
safety blades- that's what she'd been carrying when Guy discovered her.
But Willow is a purist. She likes to reserve her cutting implement for
cutting herself alone. She just can't see hacking her flesh with the
same razor she slices her dinner with."
~pg112, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Why is it that people only ask if somebody is alright when its obvious
that they aren't?"
~pg48, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to
help you discover who you are."
--Samantha

sometimes when I think about you and what you did to me I want to
scream. but I don't because I can't lose control
~veronicasmalls, twitter

Milly: Really? I'll tell you one thing though. You did not have me the moment that we met because I'm not even sure I like the fact that your staff talked about you behind your back at the dessert table. And excuse me but truth be told I didn't like anything that you ordered for me on our first date except the calamari. And ok fine, yes, it was nice to not have to think for a change. But who wants someone that doesn't think? Look! And sometimes you laugh when I cry, and you say "huh" when I make perfect sense. And never ever in my life have I burnt a chocolate souffle until now, and that in and of itself... oh my god. Should have told me I don't feel like myself around you. And I would have decided that. A long time ago if it weren't for my mother. Because who wants someone who laughs like a hyena in a polka dot dress that my mother made me buy.

Jason : I love that dress.

Milly : Take her out.

~~Because I Said So~~

"Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end. Red is the color of love. Beating hearts and hungry lips. Roses, Valentines, cherries. Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood. Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to return to white." Pretty Face by Mary Hogan

There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering.

I pray for the day when God will end mine.

"The worst thing you can be is a liar....Okay fine, yes, the worst thing
you can be is a Nazi, but THEN, number two is liar. Nazi 1, Liar 2"
twitter @shitmydadsays

"Women left lonely, get tired of waiting." Eventually we learn to just
rescue ourselves.

You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship
consists of two WHOLE individuals...look for someone complimentary...not
supplementary.

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."

"You don't know me well enough to label me sick or even disturbed" ~
Pink

Yesterdays dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink
inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
~winter girls, laurie halse anderson

"...Wandering the forests of my mind."
~Laurie Halse Anderson

"Trouble creates a capacity to handle it."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes,

You can't spell dynasty without nasty

Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud
enough, it keeps the demons at bay.
~Jojo, Across the Universe

''Not even if we were the last people on earth and there was no light''

thats ironic...the word laugh or laughter is in the word slaughter

Every once in a while i relapse and think of you

Its through the ink that my heart beats

I was here and none of you can write that in the spot that i just wrote
it in

2 Year olds speak half english and half god

Do not let a moment go bye that doesnt remind you that your heart beats
900 times a day

"you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become
the villain" -Harvey from 'The Dark Knight'

I've decided I'm gonna stick around. help you smile when you're down.
Scoot in closer, just to see, how good a friend I can be. I'm stopping
now, no more self pity. I just wish my life wasn't so.

"and maybe someday we will meet, and maybe talk and not just speak"
-james blunt

People can tell if you lie, but the WHY is still your secret.

"Life is messy. Love is messier." - Catch and Release

"I left out the complicated stuff, like how it took losing you forever
for me to truly find you." - Catch and Release

"It breaks my heart just to know you in part & not to be with you where
you are"
~Miley Cyrus