"'You don't know everything,' he says softly.  'Not yet you don't.  And when you see those good things - and I promise you, there are so many good things - they're going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it.  If you stick it out, it's all going to feel worth it in the end.  Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they'll all feel worth it when you're staring light in the face.'"
-The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

"There is a large part of me, the committee, that wants to see me dead.  If it can't kill me, it'll settle for seeing me miserable.  It wants me spinning out on what I lack, talking to myself.  I don't know why these forces exist in me that want me to die, I guess I'm just wired that way.  But it's cool that there is this other part of me that must really want to live.  I don't have scientific proof of its existence, and I don't need it.  I'm still alive.  So I know it's there."
-So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

"When I'm sleeping, the committee stays up all night and then greets me at dawn with really bad ideas.  It's like, Good morning!  Everything is shit!  Time to act impulsively.  But first let's start by getting into fights with imaginary people from the past.  Next let's catalog everything that's wrong with you and your life.  Also, I want to remind you of everything you don't have - and everything you should be scared of losing.  Let's begin." 
-So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

"I grip my knees with both hands and try to hold my body together.  I'm about to rip at the seams; if I cry, everything inside me is going to fly out.  When someone opens the door, pieces of me will be borne away on the wind.  I'll never be able to find all of them.  I'll never be whole.  I'll never be whole."
-Something Real by Heather Demetrois

"Her throat hurt.  Her chest hurt.  Love hurt.  So why was she happy?"
-The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

"I thought: 'I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.'"
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith