To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

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 common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death.

You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.