“I transform with pressure, I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you but the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.”— Sia, play.spotify.com
“I wish I loved myself more than anyone else I wish I didn’t feel bad after ignoring your text I wish I didn’t think of you every night I wish I knew how to sleep after knowing I hurt someone I wish I knew how to be heartless I wish nothing fazed me I wish I had the talent to do everything that pushe…”— Rania Naim, gumroad.com
“Do you guys actually feel bad hurting a girl or do they just say their apology and never think about how he affected her life again.”— Amaan Shaikh, facebook.com
“I only call you when it's half past five, the only time that I'll be by your side. I only love it when you touch me, not feel me, when I'm fucked up, that's the real me.”— The Weeknd, play.spotify.com
“In my dark time, taking it back to the street, making those promises that I could not keep. In my dark time, baby this is all I could be, only my mother could love me for me”— The Weeknd, play.spotify.com
“This ain't the right time for you to fall in love with me, my baby I'm just being honest.”— The Weeknd, play.spotify.com
“When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no lon…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“I believe it’s time to stop pushing through the pain and start treating mental health like we would a torn hamstring.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword - it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but it also makes them more susceptible to life's pain.”— Jeff Brown, facebook.com
“I've learned the hard way, you can't control other people. You cannot change them either. All you can do is love them for what they are, and forgive them for the rest.”— k.a, instagram.com