Coping-mechanism Quote by Caroline Kettlewell

“Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There’s probably…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“The blade must cut, even at its own peril.”

— Marc Cameron

“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.”

— Lauren Beukes

“For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.”

— Cora Carmack

“You scrape yourself, over and over, against all the hard edges of life so that you become so sharp that people can be wounded…

— Meli Raine

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

— Steven Levenkron

“As long as everyone thinks you’re a cutter or tried to commit suicide you’ll always be on the outs.”

— Katie McGarry

“The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.”

— Kenneth Cain

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged.…

— Haruki Murakami

“To live with yourself you had to cut off the hand that offended, cut, slice, peel, scrape, and tear away at yourself till all…

— André Aciman