Girl in Pieces Quotes

“It’s counterintuitive, yes? That hurting yourself makes you feel better. That somehow you can rid yourself of pain by causing yourself pain.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Oh, it hurts to make that river. The pain is sharp and bleary all at once; curtains part and shut over your eyes; bull breath from your nostrils.
It fucking hurts, hurts, hurts. But when the blood comes, everything is warmer, and calmer.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“School, it turns out, is super easy once you remove all the other kids, asshole teachers, and
disgusting shit that goes on.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“The moral of the story, Charlie, is this: Don’t let the cereal eat you. It’s only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“The world runs on kindness. It simply has to or we'd never be able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older...And I do know you.. I KNOW you Charlie.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Oh I don't want to be
your charity case
I just want you to see
my for-real face
Can you do that for me?
It'll take a minute or three”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Mi taglio perché non ce la faccio più. Questo è quanto. Il mondo diventa un oceano, l’oceano mi sommerge, il rumore dell’acqua è assordante, l’acqua m’inonda il cuore, il mio panico diventa gigantesco come lo spazio siderale. Ho bisogno di allentare la pressione, ho bisogno di farmi più male di quanto possa farmene il mondo. E poi così, dopo, posso prendermi cura di me.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm just a shit girl in overalls and dirty jersey shirt. Frankenstein face and Frankenstein body, so who really cares, or notices, what I do?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“She's well fed. She's well loved. She can say her parents are lame because they are not. Wherever she goes, she will always be able to return to them.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“We aren't people with money; we're people who dig for change at the bottoms of purses and backpacks and eat plain noodles with butter four nights a week.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“It's counterintuitive, yes? That hurting yourself makes you feel better. That somehow you can rid yourself of pain by causing yourself pain.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were/and the way that we wanted to be...”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“You can only take one thing at a time. Set a goal. When you've finished one thing, start another.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“We all have our Kiefer stages, when we want to destroy ourselves in order to create. To see if that's beautiful, too.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Door, shut. World, over.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“We aren't much for death. Once you're gone, you're gone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I wish I could open my eyes. I don't want to open my eyes. I hear the sound of crying again and now I recognize that it's me, I am crying.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Everyone had that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I can’t deal. It’s as simple as that. The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“You own all of yourself, Charlie. Every last bit"

"You be, Charlotte, You be you”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world. Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“For the first time in months and months, I am utterly alone”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Evan always used to say that it wasn't what you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, nut what was right in front of view, in plain site.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“He winks at me. 'That's how hearts get broken, you know when you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me,”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“My body is on fire all the time, burning me away dry and night. I have to cut the black heat out. When I clean myself, wash and mend, I feel better. Cooler inside and calm. Like moss feels, when you get far back in the woods.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm so lonely in the world I want to peel all of my flesh off and walk, just bone and gristle, straight into the river, to be swallowed, just like my father.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, ...”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces