He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

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.

There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family.

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.