Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.

There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don’t know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding...

Shirley: “Christopher, would you like to tell Olivia what “F.I.N.E” means?”Christopher: “Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional”…Olivia: “But what if you really do feel fine?”Shirley: “Christopher, care to answer that?”Christopher: “Um, there’s no such feeling as...

I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even...

I don’t know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that’s worth something.

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease’. They know how to attach a doctor’s medical descriptions to hope.

Sometimes I think you don’t really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.

I’d love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine

What if I’m so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We’re just animals, after all....

You act like you’re invincible, but I know deep down you want someone to hold your hand and buy you flowers and look you in the eye and tell you you’re his soul mate. You...

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

What if I can’t ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

…and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

That’s what dreams are really like, you know? They’re not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It’s...

I said just let me try one more time and she said, “THAT’S ENOUGH, ISABEL,” again, and she could just say it over and over and it would never get through my thick skull because...

They said the doctors could tell from the scars.””Stop.””Scars can tell you how old the wound is.””Stop.””When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet.””Sarah.