Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

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.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.