“And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass.”

Stuck In A Moment, U2 Recommended by Sarah.

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, Brenda Ueland

“The darkness is death - we can speak, but we are not heard. We can scream but they turn their backs. We can run, but we cannot catch them. It is the dream where arms and legs won't work they way they should, and the air is too thick to breathe. Loved ones walk a mile ahead, forgetting to stop as we fall behind. This is the reality of the darkness. We are buried alive inside ourselves.”

Dana-Christene Umanetz

“She felt him in constant danger of doing something incorrect. Once she had a piano teacher who, in performing scales with her side by side on the bench, made a mistake. She had never forgotten it, and never learned the piano.”

My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails, John Updike

“It's strange, the layers of misery that there are. You get used to feeling pretty miserable most of the time - what might be called 'low-level misery' - a sort of permanent background of misery, and you learn to cope with it; it almost gets to feel normal. But then something happens, like me trying to draw something, which reminds you of what it was like not to feel miserable, and it hurts so much you almost just can't bear it.”

Plague, Jean Ure

“today I fell and felt better
just knowing this matters
I just feel stronger and sharper
found a box of sharp objects what a beautiful thing.”

A Box Full Of Sharp Objects, The Used Recommended by Carolyn.

“Small, simple, safe price
Rise the wake and carry with me all of my regrets
This is not a small cut that scabs and dries and flakes and heals
And I am not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to bleed and fuck and fight
I want the pain of payment
What's left but a section of pygmy size cuts
Much like the slew of a thousand unwanted fucks
Would you be my little cut?
Would you be my thousand fucks?
And make mark leaving space for the guilt to be liquid
To fill, and spill over, and under my thoughts
My sad, sorry, selfish cry out to the cutter
I'm cutting trying to picture your black broken heart
Love is not like anything
Especially a fucking knife.”

I'm A Fake, The Used

“I realized since leaving Samantha, there was a part of me that had never stopped grieving. And all this time, it was not Samantha for whom I had often woken up sobbing, but for my self, for the plague of indifference that had kept me from her all these years. Like a ship, I had dropped anchor in the middle of the sea. I had chosen quietly to rot.”

The Secret Lives of People In Love, Simon Van Booy

“Fight till you can fight no more, scream till you can scream no more, breathe till you can breathe no more. Then listen to your heartbeat in the darkness.”

Ali Solenarian Van Dam

“beautiful red blood is leaving my veins
running out of my hands
dripping on the floor
I'm bleeding and it feels good
like my release finally arrived
beautiful red is surrounding me
no threats, no fears, just free at last

beautiful red blood is fading to black
no I cannot see, I'm losing my life
beautiful red is all I can see
suffocating, I cannot breath
falling, I cannot stand
no regrets, facing my death

beautiful red
dripping down

drip drip, losing my beautiful red
just a body dripping to death, just a soul, finding it's way
no regrets, I'll see my friends again

beautiful red blood is what I've seen
pain in my life is what I've felt
hate for stupid is what I've shown
I lived my life and now I'm gone

beautiful red
dripping down.”

Beautiful Red, Astrid Van der Veen Recommended by Darcy.

“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”

Laurens Van du Post

“I wish they would only take me as I am.”

Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

“There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their 'discomfort' like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going.”

Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Jhonen Vasquez

“I'd like to help you doctor, yes I really really would
But the din in my head - it's too much and it's no good
I'm standing in a windy tunnel shouting through the roar
And I'd like to give the information you're asking for
But blood makes noise, it's ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise and I can't really hear you in the thickening of fear.”

Blood Makes Noise, Suzanne Vega Recommended by Shay.

“When blood sees blood of its own
It sings to see itself again
It sings to hear the voice it's known
It sings to recognize the face.”

Blood Sings, Suzanne Vega Recommended by Shay.

“Watch while the queen in one false move
Turns herself into a pawn
Sleepy and shaken and watching while the blurry night
Turns into a very clear dawn.”

Knight Moves, Suzanne Vega Recommended by Shay.

“And she said, 'I've swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside, and often I've bled.'”

The Queen And The Soldier, Suzanne Vega Recommended by Rosie.

“She said, 'You won't understand, and you may as well not try'
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan.”

The Queen And The Soldier, Suzanne Vega Recommended by Rosie.

“When you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.”

Velvet Goldmine [movie] Recommended by beck.

“There's always someone out there dying to have the circumstances you consider problems.”

Heather Venrick

“Don't tell me
How to be
'Cause I like some suffering
Don't ask me
What I need
I'm just fine
Here finding
Me.”

Finding Me, Vertical Horizon Recommended by Darci.

“For the life of me, I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise.

For the life of me, I cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins.
We were merely Freshmen.”

Freshmen, The Verve Pipe

“Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'”

Minor Poems, Copa, Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

“'What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.'

'Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl.'”

The Virgin Suicides [movie]

“What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality.”

The Virgin Suicides [movie]