Can't Escape Pain, Kiddo. Battle

I Needed To Hear The World But Didn't Want The World To Know I Was Listening.

Cutting Pain Was A Different Flavor Of Hurt. It Made It Easier Not To Think About Having My Body And My Family And My Life Stolen, Made It Easier Not To Care... -wintergirls

I Cry To Let Everything Out

Censoring Books That Deal With Difficult, Adolescent Issues Does Not Protect Anybody. Quite The Opposite. It Leaves Kids In The Darkness And Makes Them Vulnerable. Censorship Is The Child Of Fear And The Father Of Ignorance. Our Children Cannot Afford To Have The Truth Of The World Withheld From Them

Some Adults Would Rather Pretend That Bad Things Dont Exist Than To Talk About Them.