“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”

“For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.”

“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”

“I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).”

“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”

“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”

“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home… and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”

“A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.”