How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached to anything, anyone who showed me the least bit of attention. I promised myself I would stay away, I would learn to be alone, it was better than the disappointment when you found it out anyway. Loneliness was the human condition, I had to get used to it. by The White Oleander, Janet Fitch

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. by Dale Carnegie

Yes, I’m okay. I’m okay because I have a plan and a solution: I’m going to kill myself. I’m going to do it tonight. I thought I was better and I’m not better. I tried to get stable and I can’t get stable. I tried to turn the corner and there aren’t any corners; I can’t eat; I can’t sleep; I’m just wasting resources. It’s going to be tough on my parents. My parents will think they’re such failures. They’ll blame themselves. It’ll be the most important event in their lives, the thing that gets whispered by other parents at parties when their backs are turned. But you know what, it’s time for me to stop putting other people’s emotions ahead of my own. It’s time for me to be true to myself, and my true self wants to blast off this rock. by It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini