Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

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.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

I'm sorry. I don't recall

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.