be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

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.

He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.

a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.