Quotes From "Undone" By Brooke Taylor

There is just as much beauty in birth as there...
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There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away." Pg. 155 Undone Brooke Taylor
Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They...
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Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge. Cat Clarke
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To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like. Cat Clarke
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It's too late. I chose life too late. Cat Clarke
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I can just close my eyes and let myself fall into oblivion. Maybe I'll hit the exact same rocks and my blood will mingle with his and maybe there's some kind of life after death and he's waiting for me there with his hand outstretched just like mine. But... I don't want to die. I try to twist my body backwards and pain shoots up my neck. It's too late. I chose life too late. Cat Clarke
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I know people think suicide is selfish, and maybe sometimes it really is. But what happened to Kai was beyond what anyone should have to cope with. I didn’t blame him, not really. It just broke my heart that I wasn’t enough to keep him here. Cat Clarke
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Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory. They're easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or not. Any small thing can trigger them: a phrase, a smell, a thought. It brings everything back like I'm reliving that moment, a brief scene in the movie of my life, complete with how horrible I felt at the time. And I usually felt horrible in those moments that I want to forget that stick around. Elizabeth Norris
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It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough. Cat Clarke
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In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility. MercyMe
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Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance? Cat Clarke
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Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting. Cat Clarke