People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them.

Being suicidal doesn’t mean that I’m going to kill myself.
Being suicidal is having this inexplainable ache while you’re living.
It’s waiting for your life to end, and wishing that you didn’t have to carry on.
Having this ache, and incapability to feel happy living, doesn’t mean that I am going to kill myself;
it just means I wouldn’t mind dying.

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

The body is purified by water, the self is purified by tears, intellect is purified by knowledge and the soul is purified by love.

He stilled the storm to a whisper.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Any kind of criticism could trigger my sense of worthlessness and drive me to defend myself by lashing out.