Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

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.

In Acts, every believer was living in a direct relationship with Him (Christ) and each one functioned normally as a member of His body in oneness with all believers.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.