I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

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.

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

Maybe if I stretch my lips, I will remember how to smile.

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.