Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

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.

To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.