I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to...

I promised I’d save him, take him home! I promised him!” . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or...

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy’Albert Einstein

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Never allow unforgiveness to rule your heart. Let go of your hurts. Embrace healing.

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself,...

My best writing surfaces out of the need to rebel, the desire to end emotional chaos and the importance I place on embracing that independent streak inside us all that makes us want to break...

What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you—but with what...

She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia,...

Once you cry it out, it’s supposed to vanish…right? It’s not true. It’s just…a little less.It was the first chink in my brickwall. The wall was still there. And it was still made of bricks,but...

Don’t be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Never allow forgiveness to rule your heart. Let go of your hurts. Embrace healing.

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

I lose it when I can’t write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s...

Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don’t care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they had no hand or say in the matter, that whatever happened could not...