A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

You played my heart as it was meant to be played, a little, then all at once.

When wealth is lost nothing is lost When health is lost something is lost When character is lost all is lost!

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.