I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

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.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.