“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know what its like to want to die; how it hurts to smile; how you try to fit in but you… — VishEmo Copy Share Image
My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“This time the skin seperates and she blinks her way back into the universe, watches the valley fold open, the blood seaming… — Martha O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“When is an attempt not a real act of self-destruction but merely an attention-seeking device? We may never know; however, since even… — Andrew Slaby Copy Share Image
People who have physical scars hide them with clothing or a mask, those with emotional scars hide them with a smile or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin — Patrick Jones Copy Share Image
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I'll show you mine if you show me yours first. Let's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse. — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
