m’s goodreads

Daily Quotes from Melinda Sordino. Follow @marthaclanz for Updates!

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“There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me.”

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“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”

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“This closet is abandoned - it has no purpose, no name. It is the perfect place for me.”

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“You don’t like anything. You are the most depressed person I’ve ever met, and excuse me for saying this, but you are no fun to be around and I think you need professional help.”

[thecpdiary]

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

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LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON, Speak

https://www.thecpdiary.com

[wraithofmon]

i have survived. i am here. confused, screwed up, but here. so how can i find my way? is there a chainsaw of the soul, an ax i can take to my memories or fears?

[msgoodreads]

“I’m sure I was a huge disappointment. I’m not pretty or smart or athletic. I’m just like them - an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies.”

[msgoodreads]

“We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders. I am clanless.”

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“I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.”

[msgoodreads]

"All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say."