I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

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.

How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky

When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No, ' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.