"Some say beauty is more than skin deep...If I slash my skin a million times, will I ever be as beautiful as you?"-unknown
Love is like a paper rose,
beatiful and fake!
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. –Leonard Cohen
Self-destruction feeds on self-hatred. –Mary D. Esselman
We couldn’t imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. –Jeffery Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body
Tells what words cannot explain.
–C. Blount
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding—a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared. –Clive Barker, Pinhead
Scars are souvenirs you never lose… –Goo Goo Dolls, “Name”
I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that’s real.
–Nine Inch Nails, “Hurt”
