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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was th...more

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And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to...more

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Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

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Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback wit...more

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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add u...more

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few fli...more

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[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And th...more

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Look at the statistics. You're more likely to top yourself if you've just gone through a divorce. Or if you're anorexic. Or if you're unemployed. Or i...more

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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

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Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's n...more

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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became...more

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disrupt...more