Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".