Rumors are spread by jealous people

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.

Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Make your upper limit, no limit.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.