“If I insist on situations that make you cry
It's not real
It can be fear
It's in your eyes
It can be here
The complications affect your mind.”

Astro Boy, Blonde Redhead Recommended by Mea Culpa.

“I just want someone to pummel me into submission
This incurable fascination with being totally beaten up
I just want someone to slap me right in the mouth.”

Mamacita, Blonde Redhead Recommended by Mea Culpa.

“Remember when we found misery
We watched her, watched her spread her wings
And slowly fly around our room
And she asked for your gentle mind.”

Misery is a Butterfly, Blonde Redhead Recommended by Mea Culpa.

“I want to kiss the sickness of mind
My heart without reason
Sunken to deep disappointment
Spreads over universe
With a knife
I want to bleed out distress like this.”

Pink Love, Blonde Redhead Recommended by Mea Culpa.

“How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body
Tells what words cannot explain.”

Corie Blount

“A slow strangle with your feet on the floor
I've got 14 angels and we're sleeping alone
In the back of a cave, where the rest of us go
To feel normal.”

A Quiet Mind, Blue October Recommended by Shay.

“see here there are the bruises
and some were self-inflicted
and some showed up along the way
so I nod my head
I'm ready for the world to see.”

Chameleon Boy, Blue October Recommended by Alee.

“A brief bout with a razorblade cut me
I freaked out, thinking people didn't love me
In letting go, I am so proud of what I've done
I watched closely as the you I knew forgot me”

Razorblade, Blue October Recommended by bri.

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

Napoléon Bonaparte

“Life is a burden to me, nothing gives me any pleasure. I only find sadness in everything around me. It is very difficult because the ways of those with whom I live, and probably always shall live, are as different from mine as moonlight is from sunlight.”

Napoléon Bonaparte

“I'm freezing
I'm starving
I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine.”

Mother Mother, Tracy Bonham

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”

Karl Ludwig Börne

“Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?”

Young Americans, David Bowie

“He awoke, opened his eyes. The room meant very little to him; he was deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come... there was the certitude of an infinite sadness at the core of his consciousness, but the sadness was reassuring, because alone it was familiar.”

The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles

“here lies clarity, in a perfect grave
comprised of perfect steel, the perfect blade
was a perfect white against the perfect lines, from last perfect night
I'm the perfect picture of complacency
...and that's all I feel
slow motion replaces real time
as the horror fills their eyes
these claws will never kill again

the lines I wear around my wrist
are there to prove that I exist

I am a monster, clothed in crimson sleeves
and perforated lines where my wrists should be”

Purging, Boys Night Out

“Only the old are innocent. that is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is the property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.”

Stepping Westward, Malcolm Bradbury

“We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.”

Ray Bradbury

“'I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive'”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“Burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“Let me alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.”

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury