“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”

“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.”

“I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”

“I don’t want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn’t live for very long without a heart.”