If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

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.

Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills.

There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.

It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.