You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

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.

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.