"It's time like these, I need relief-

 

 

Please, show me how.

 

 

Living just to keep going,

 

 

Going just to be sane."

"No one ever dared to break these endless lies.

Secretly she cries.

She burns like the sun and I can't look away."

"I felt myself melting into the shadows,

Like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life."

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

 

"You're like the ocean, pretty on the surface,

 

But dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see."

- Ellen Hopkins, Burned

"In truth, you like the pain.

You like it because you think you deserve it.

And the fact that you're putting yourself through the pain means that you are doing, by all rights, what you ought to do."

- Marya Hornbacher, Wasted

"It's those pills you don't need to take,

Medicating perfection, now that's the mistake.

You shine so bright it's insane.

You put the sun to shame."