I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

Life and light will not let me be.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

So who do I want to be tomorrow?

Let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things--their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless.

It's hard to wake up when you don't know you're sleeping.

Life is all about the choices we didn't make

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.