Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

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.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.