Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

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.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!