You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.

Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.