When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

Nathan Filer
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  1. I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are. I guess that's what turning eighteen means. Time to own it.

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  3. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

  4. Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

  5. This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

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