School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

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.

Whatever be the calling name the emotion and love hidden in it is same

Grown men do not need leaders.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.