This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

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.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Never trust a journalist.