Inspirational writing on a bathroom stall?

..... hm.... No idea.

Someone who is telepathic could talk to her? Someone who has seen it all?

How about something written on the stall, "You must go on. The world is waiting, *insert MC's name*. I forgive you."

And have it written mysteriously by the dead best friend?

Why am I doing this again?

Maybe just "I forgive you." It's simple enough for it to be written on there coincidentally but meaningful enough for her to feel a connection. She could think of it as a message from the afterlife, but anyone could have written it - it's just "fate" that she saw it in the first place.

Maybe she hid in a public bathroom she'd been in sometime (a long time) before. While crying there she happens to see graffiti she scrawled there in permanent marker. I'd guess it was her initials and his initials with BFF. Because she sees it, she begins to think of the friendship as it was, rather than how it ended. She may get a sense of closure from it.

In another vein, she may see some quote that seems to sum up what she went through.
Some ideas:
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 - 1915)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that."
Jay Leno (again, makes her think of the good times)

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC), quoted from Agamemnon

You can browse this page for more quotes: http://www.quotationspage.com/

Have fun!

If you let imagination go....

This was my first thought

http://commonties.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/myredletterday.jpg

My favorite bathroom writing is from this XKCD strip: http://xkcd.com/229/

"This graffiti
is fleeting human contact
both of us lost,
but for a moment we're lost together.
I wonder who you are."

I think it's comforting and inspirational because it's a nice reminder that you're never truly all alone, even when you just want to take a pee.

"You can't arrest me! I'm a rock star!"

In a public restroom in Seattle, the words "I'm sorry" were written on the back of a stall door. Underneath someone else had written "It's okay." I thought that was pretty amazing...

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"Sorry if this is weird but, do you like flying kites?"

I thought of that, too.

What about something simple, like 'you did the right thing', or 'everything will be alright in the end'?

Reminds me of this Neil Innes song ...

"As a writer, if you took away my paper, I would write on my heart. If you took away my ink, I'd write on the wind ... It wouldn't be an ideal way to work." - Garth Marenghi

I once wrote, "Live deliberate," on a bathroom stall at school.

I want to get that tattooed. It has so much meaning for me.

and the rest is rust and stardust (:

Someone may have written the number of a suicide help line or confidential listening line.

You could also have random stuff like "I love you" or "Never give up."

People write the most random stuff on bathroom walls ... pretty much anything you want to put there, as long as it's short, will work. (I've also seen people write underneath old messages, so if one person wrote "I love you," you might see "I love you too" underneath, in different handwriting.)

Great idea by the way. There's probably a website that lists interesting bathroom graffiti, try searching for it.

I had a soul ... but NaNoWriMo eated it. :(

Breeder of Plot Wolverines

Just a memo to Leafdarking, I was going to post the same thing.
I love that idea.

I'm reminded of this picture: http://maidenofwar.deviantart.com/art/bathroom-stall-49769690
Also this one: http://alyssa007.deviantart.com/art/Self-Explanatory-58657409
Aslo these: http://simplysarah123.deviantart.com/art/hidden-inspiration-74322362 http://illstaywithyoux33.deviantart.com/art/bathroom-grafitti-95000900 http://lovingbreathing1234.deviantart.com/art/Corner-of-Perception-88180... http://alreadypoisoned.deviantart.com/art/why-so-glum-82896718 http://beautifullychaotic83.deviantart.com/art/Spoken-like-a-85786365

Me? Go out to research this all on my own and search Deviantart for hours? What are you talking about ^^"

...Aslo this, on a completely unrelated note: http://tarathiellyris.deviantart.com/art/Pyramid-Head-Watches-You-553179...

Couldn't help myself :P

"Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's knowing there's things more important"
~The Princess Diaries

Though I do like the "I forgive you" idea

Though Life be full of shit, never forget you're still able to wipe and flush.

It could be worse. You could be a toilet.

Crap flows out to sea.

Sorry, I don't have anything better. The most interesting one near me is an argument on the library's stall on if you could be a survivor of a homicide.

"All I can do is keep breathing.
All we can do is keep breathing now."

Or some variation of that. It's lyrics from the song "Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson. In my eyes, your MC is probably feeling pretty awful and I'm not one for inspirational crap, so I'm going with more of a stark realization that all she can really do is "keep breathing," and that someone else realizes it too. I've always loved bathroom stall writing. I saw something in a Wal-Mart once that I wanted to take a picture of but never got that chance to because they painted over it. Sadly, I don't remember what it said.

I also thought maybe on the light side of the house that "Life sucks" would be a little comical. Or maybe she could just read all of the trivial comments by the other people and realize how childish they are and come to terms with such a tragic adult decision she had to make (though that is quite depressing!)

Norbert Capek:
"It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals."

Ah, I've spent the last thiry some odd minutes looking things up, but I must get back to work =] If I find anything worthwhile, I'll post it!

This is quite long, but it's really great:

If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in your grieving.
There is a change but not a leaving.
For just as death is part of life,
The dead live on forever in the living.
And all the gathered riches of our journey,
The moments shared, the mysteries explored,
The steady layering of intimacy stored,
The things that made us laugh or weep or sing,
The joy of sunlit snow or first unfurling of the spring,
The wordless language of look and touch,
The knowing,
Each giving and each taking,
These are not flowers that fade,
Nor trees that fall and crumble,
Nor are they stone,
For even stone cannot the wind and rain withstand
And mighty mountain peaks in time reduce to sand.
What we were, we are.
What we had, we have.
A conjoined past imperishably present.
So when you walk the wood where once we walked together
And scan in vain the dappled bank beside you for my shadow,
Or pause where we always did upon the hill to gaze across the land,
And spotting something, reach by habit for my hand,
And finding none, feel sorrow start to steal upon you,
Be still.
Close your eyes.
Breathe.
Listen for my footfall in your heart.
I am not gone but merely walk within you.
-Nicholas Evans, from "The Smoke Jumper"

And I'm going to throw in some Frost because he's one of my favorites =]

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing Gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

Or maybe the lines "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening since those lines seem to have multiple meanings. Ok, I'm going to stop now =D

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few' Spock

This could help her justify her actions to herself, when she needs reassurance that her friend had to die.

Or maybe she sees a picture someone has drawn of a band aid with the word "Forgivness" written accross the length of it.

Giving her an emotional bandage at her most vulnerable.

I occasionally write quotes on the bathroom walls. A recent one was "Live freely, bear no regrets" or something along those lines.

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