words to remember

mental health related quotes from books I got lost in. currently reading: Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke

[lostbetweenthoselines]

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go [...]

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

[lostbetweenthoselines]

And I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path.

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

[lostbetweenthoselines]

I'm not sure when, or if, anything will ever get better, not sure if these wounds are the kind that can heal.

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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I don't want freedom. I want sleep. I want this to end.

Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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I feel cold, like I might shiver and then shatter.

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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Ich kann nicht schreien, weil ich nicht atme. Die Stille lastet so schwer auf mir [...].

Mary E. Pearson, Zweiunddieselbe

[lostbetweenthoselines]

Schlaf [...] Schlaf, und wach nicht auf, bevor es vorbei ist.

Ransom Riggs, Die Bibliothek der besonderen Kinder

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Es ist eine Geste der Achtsamkeit, Raum zu geben an einem Ort, an dem Gewalt geherrscht hat, damit diejenigen, die überlebt haben, einen Grund finden zu überstehen.

Lilly Lindner, Winterwassertief

[lostbetweenthoselines]

Ihre Augen waren wie der Wald, ihr Gesicht so voller Stille.

Cornelia Funke, Das Labyrinth des Fauns

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Ich habe genickt. Obwohl ich mir nicht einmal sicher war, ob ich den Tag überstehen würde. Denn irgendwann, zwischen Hochsommerhitze und Herbstblätterabfall, hatten sich nebelige Gedanken in meinem wortüberlagerten Gehirn angesammelt [...].

Lilly Lindner, Bevor ich falle

[lostbetweenthoselines]

And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad”. Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Veronica Roth, Insurgent  

[lostbetweenthoselines]

Maybe there's more we all could have done [...] but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Veronica Roth, Divergent

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I don't cry. I just ache. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.

Veronica Roth, Insurgent

[lostbetweenthoselines]

I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Veronica Roth, Divergent

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Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong.

Ned Vizzini, It’s kind of a funny story