Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.

I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.