Quotes from Sarah Kane

I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die.

I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.

A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

I love you still, Against my will.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.