Bologna girl, that's me.

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.

She woke up thin. She loved it when that happened.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.