“What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?” — Amy Reed Amy-reed Copy Share Image
“But just because she's not helpless doesn't mean she doesn't need help.” — Amy Reed Helpless Copy Share Image
“Imagine everything feeling wrong. Imagine a hole in your chest the size of God.” — Amy Reed Feeling Copy Share Image
“People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.” — Amy Reed Change Copy Share Image
“And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues.” — Amy Reed Kiss Copy Share Image
“This is the downside of being complete. Others want what you have. They covet your doneness.” — Amy Reed Downside Copy Share Image
“It feels like the ground is breathing and the air has hands, like everything is moving except me, like I am the… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“And maybe these words have become something more than emails; maybe they are a kind of journal. Writing to you is like… — Amy Reed Journal Copy Share Image
“People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying… — Amy Reed Education Copy Share Image
“What if talking about your feelings doesn't fix anything? What if what you really need is to make the feelings go away?” — Amy Reed Bipolar disorder Copy Share Image
“Your memories of me are part trees and part ocean and part magic, and I don't know if I will ever be… — Amy Reed Isabel Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's all love is-one person saying it because they think they're supposed to and the other person feeling to guilty to… — Amy Reed Feeling Copy Share Image
“I used to think I was that girl you remember. And maybe I was, maybe those memories are real, maybe that girl… — Amy Reed Angel Copy Share Image
“Everybody has fucked-up families, even normal kids, even the ones who aren’t in here. There’s no magic math equation that makes us… — Amy Reed Addicts Copy Share Image
“And that's when it hits me, the punch in the stomach, the carving out of my insides. That's when I realize that… — Amy Reed Movie Copy Share Image
“I want to crush my cigarette on his eyelid. I would rather he keep fucking me for the rest of the night… — Amy Reed Eyelid Fucking Copy Share Image
“Shirley: "Christopher, would you like to tell Olivia what "F.I.N.E" means?" Christopher: "Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional" ... Olivia: "But what if… — Amy Reed Inspirational attitude Copy Share Image
“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is?… — Amy Reed Addiction Copy Share Image
“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a… — Amy Reed Bipolar disorder Copy Share Image
“How is feeling like a failure supposed to help me? The way I see it, they should invent some pill that just… — Amy Reed Failure Copy Share Image
“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby… — Amy Reed Beauty Copy Share Image
“Before there was Cocaine or vodka or sex or any of that, there was fantasy. There was escape. That was my first… — Amy Reed Addiction Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse — Amy Reed Addiction Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm a snow globe and someone shook me up and now every little piece of me is falling back… — Amy Reed Bipolar disorder Copy Share Image
“Do you remember? Do you remember being solid? Do you remember life before the hole? Before you were empty and needed to… — Amy Reed Life Copy Share Image
“I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it… — Amy Reed Bipolar disorder Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be-- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked… — Amy Reed Love Copy Share Image
“Smoke is not chasing me and making my eyes sweat. My eyes are not burning. I am not crying. I am not… — Amy Reed Beauty Copy Share Image
“The things is,” Rosina says, “people don’t want to hear something that’ll make their lives more difficult, even if it’s the truth.… — Amy Reed Telling Copy Share Image
“I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad… — Amy Reed Anger Copy Share Image
“You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of… — Amy Reed Dark place Copy Share Image