Survivors have scars. Victims have graves.
Something that I need carved in my bones.
‘I hate myself pretty often.’ She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting to smile at the same time. 'Pretty fucking often.’
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
Marya Hornbacher
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente