Ryan Shaver Quotes

Ryan Shaver: Do you wanna know why Hannah wrote these poems? She was reaching out. She was desperate to be heard, to connect. And people took that lifeline and they twisted it. They took her own story away from her. And she fought to get it back. But in the end, the story they told was so loud that it’s all that she could hear… and she started to believe it and forgot who she was. It’s easy to let that happen, to lose yourself. To believe that no one could ever know you, or love you. And that you’re the only person that knows what you’re going through. And you convince yourself it’s going to get better. And then, it doesn’t.

Ryan Shaver: “A work of art is only good if it arises from necessity, from need. And it can be political need or personal need or, ideally, both. Art should be confrontation. It should shock and scare you.” And Hannah, she was an artist in need. And I think that’s what happened. And she freaked people out. A soul in need needs a way to express it. Silence is never the answer. But when there’s so much going on inside you… society expects us to stay silent. And it’s a dangerous thing when there’s so much going on inside you, but no one to share it with. Hannah needed to reclaim her power.