“A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don’t matter anymore.”

“I hate alcohol. I hate drinking that shit. Yet, I cannot stop and know the bitter taste of it too well.”

“I can still feel the drugs in my veins. They won’t let me do anything but sleep. My lungs are yet so heavy and my bones can’t carry this empty body out of bed. My heart is struggling to find its beat and my eyes cannot stand all the light. My hands are shaking as I am trying to remember yesterday with a mind that doesn’t know how to survive today. I can barely hold the pen – it’s like it’s filled with poison and I’m nearly overdosed.”

“When the stars fall down and you start counting the times you have failed, the nights you found no sleep in or the times you could hear the pieces of your broken heart shatter when someone said goodbye forever - these are the times when you feel like a bullet right through the head or ignoring a car while crossing the street are the only cure to your lonely life. When you need someone by your side, but you don’t know who to call and this time you don’t know if you’d survive your fall to the ground - that’s when you’ll have to learn to be your own hero. No one will talk to you and no one will take care of you. You have got to learn to get through it alone. You have to realize that no one was ever there for you and all you ever had was yourself which has to be enough for the rest of your life.”