The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.