Quote by Rachel Hawkins

“This felt like that. Hollow and painful on the inside. So bad that you wanted to cut yourself and watch the blood spill out…

— S. Doyle

“giving an explanation of why I cut was tough. I didn't even really understand why I did it. I took a deep breath. "Well...when…

— Anonymous

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the…

— V.C. Andrews

“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

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.”

— Madeline Miller

“I was covered with blood. It dripped mournfully from my body, with pain and sorrow in every drop.”

— R. O. Barton

“The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.”

— Walter Kirn

“...I'm under a microscope where my every facial expression is being studied. It makes me want to scream, but I can't, so I just…

— Katja Millay

“I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.”

— Alan Alda

“Your eyes.” “What? What?” I scrubbed at them violently, horrified at the thought they might have those gross goopy things at the edges. Or…

— Alyxandra Harvey