I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

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.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

And to my soul mate, ” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.