“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”
“Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri”
“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”
“I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.”
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”