Cry Me A River

Girl in Pieces

It doesn't matter what you do or how you do it: it's all the same. You could drink, slice, do meth, 

snort coke, burn, cut, stab, slash, rip out your eyelashes, or fuck till you bleed and it's all the 

same thing: self-harm. She says: whether someone has hurt you or made you feel bad or 

unworthy or unclean, rather than taking the rational step of realizing the person that person is 

an asshole or a psycho and should be shot or strung up and you should stay the fuck away from 

them, instead we internalize our abuse and begin to blame and punish ourselves and weirdly 

once you start cutting or burning or fucking because you feel so shitty and unworthy, your body 

starts to release this neat-feeling shit called endorphins and you feel so fucking high the world is

like a cotton candy at the best and most colorful state fair in the world, only bloody and stuffed 

with infection. But the fucked-up part is once you start to self-harming, you can never not be a 

creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody 

likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out.

Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.

-From the best selling novel ; Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow-