Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

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.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

But this is called show business, not show family.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.