Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.

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.

Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

What’s the point of living if you don’t live.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Steel is not forged in a comfortable place.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

I've always lived in the same way.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.