"Depression is a funny thing. Some days you have the strength to get up out of bed and attempt to live your life as a normal human being, but others…you just don’t want to leave your room and socialize..."
- Ashley Earley
"I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight."
"In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. I will always be there for you, if you let me."
- Christina L. Barr
"Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity."
"Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a fool."
"Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything."
"Was James bipolar?”The tears returned, and I watched her battle them. “We don’t use that word in our family.”I stared at her for a moment. “Why not?”“Mum and Dad don’t believe in it.” She kept walking..."
- Hazel Butler
"I swore as the knife I’d been using to dice our dinner bit into my finger. I dropped it on the floor, blood spattering the counter and cupboard doors a furious red. I watched, mesmerised, as the blood..."
"James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money, a home, a job, a wife, a good friend. I’d known people who died at their own h..."
"Death begins before birth. I have always found this an odd notion, but were it not for the death of certain cells during our initial development, humans would be born with webbed toes. Death moulds ou..."