I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

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.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.

I understand your problem. I'd like to help you out

When something is tragic you never really forget it.

We can never have enough startups that are pursuing unique solutions to important problems.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.

Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.