July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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Markus Zusak
How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?
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Ruth Ozeki
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything...affects everything
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Jay Asher
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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.
I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it was just a summer to a summer, a dizzying breath of honeysuckle and whiskey and candle smoke, inhaled, held, let go.
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Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.
