and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.