Kids are mostly very resilient.

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.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I run a multi billion dollar company