There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

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.

I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

I love swimming because racing.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.