103 Quotes by Kathleen Glasgow

There is being alone. And then there is being alone. They are not the same thing at all.

I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?

...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.

What we've done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa

... it's remembering what it's like to cut, and cut hard. The way you have to dig the glass in, deeply, right away, to break the skin and then drag, and drag fiercely, to make a river worth drowning in.

But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.

They should tell you, right when you get here, that that part of wishing is over. What we’ve done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.

There are too many people in my head. I claw at my body to get them out, to peel out the blackness spreading inside me.I’m running blind, ghosts swallowing me.