Leah Raeder quotes:

Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release.

I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Most of the time romance isn't even about love, anyway. It's about escape. Fantasy. Salvation from the mundane. Save me from boredom, from exhaustion, from my undersexed body, from microwave dinners and reality TV, from going to bed alone with a vibrator or a cat. Save me from my desperately ordinary life.

Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

Anyone who's happy in a world this fucked-up has some serious psychological issues. You think I'm crazy because I see things as they are. You'd rather put on Disneyland goggles and watch TV and pretend it's fine. It's not crazy if I see monsters when I live in a fucking nightmare.

Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself.

You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.

You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends...That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.