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I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

Rachel Klein

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

Tags: away, life and death, realm, sleep, struggling

Girls are always saying things like, I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin, but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blo...

Rachel Klein

Girls are always saying things like, I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin, but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blo...

Tags: death, depression, diary entry, dying, journal, panic, rachel klein, sad girl, self harm, suicide

About Author
Rachel Klein may refer to:

Rachel Klein (chef), American chef
Rachel Klein (novelist), American novelist, translator and essayist

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more sociall...

Rachel Klein

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more sociall...

Tags: social

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Rachel Klein

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Tags: recovery, victimhood

Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.

Rachel Klein

Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.

She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. S...

Rachel Klein

She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. S...

Tags: strength

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Rachel Klein

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Tags: words

Voor iedereen die zich afvraagt of het mogelijk is de puberteit te overleven, is een bevestigend antwoord de enige geruststelling die ik kan geven.

Rachel Klein

Voor iedereen die zich afvraagt of het mogelijk is de puberteit te overleven, is een bevestigend antwoord de enige geruststelling die ik kan geven.

Tags: puberteit

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

Rachel Klein

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

Tags: diary, supernatural

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

Rachel Klein

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

Tags: trust

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grow...

Rachel Klein

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grow...

I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable.

Rachel Klein

I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Rachel Klein

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Tags: humanity, supernatural

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

Rachel Klein

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

Tags: life, supernatural

I spent most of this weekend sitting on the sofa reading Proust. The only time my mother left her studio, which she locked behind her, was to go to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt’s house.

Rachel Klein

I spent most of this weekend sitting on the sofa reading Proust. The only time my mother left her studio, which she locked behind her, was to go to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt’s house.

Hey, Ernessa, where the fuck are you?

Rachel Klein

Hey, Ernessa, where the fuck are you?

It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?

Rachel Klein

It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?

Tags: recovery

The truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

Rachel Klein

The truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

Rachel Klein

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

Tags: fear, sadness