I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

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 language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.