title: What Doesn't Kill You: A Mini Memoir about Suffering and Surviving a Brain Bleed
author: Marissa Kristal
description: Marissa Kristal has written for various print and online publications such as Time Out New York, Psychology Today, RunnersWorld.com and FOXnews.com to name a few. The genres she's covered range from health and wellness, to beauty and fashion, to dating and relationships, and the arts. But, as a self-proclaimed Chronicler of Life, Marissa's specialty-and passion-lies in nonfiction and memoir writing. Visit Marissa's website at: www.marissakristal.com.
zlib_text: Saving Quinton
  Jessica Sorensen
  
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  For everyone who struggled and survived.
  
  Chapter 1
  Quinton
  I wake up every morning feeling content that I’m drowning in darkness. Blissfully, mind-numbingly content, without worrying
  or being haunted by my fucked-up past because I can’t feel a fucking thing. At least after I take my first hit. Once I get the taste
  of that bitterly sweet, wonderfully toxic, white crystals up my nose, it’ll burn out the back of my throat along with all my
  emotions. Then I’ll be good to go for days. The guilt that I carry around in me will briefly die and I’ll slowly die right along
  with it. I’m glad because I want to be dead.
  And I’m working on getting there, one numbing line at a time.
  I can’t remember the last time I slept, just like I can’t remember the name of the woman lying beside me in my bed, passed
  out with her top off. I met her last night when she showed up with Dylan and Delilah and so