Write about the emotions you fear the most.

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.

Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.