I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.

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.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

Your tongue may speak lies, but your eyes know the truth.

Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know, sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.