I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

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.

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?