"Wintergirls" Quotes
After her best friend's death, Lia struggles with an eating disorder and the haunting memories of their toxic relationship.
young adult | 278 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
I am not the kind of girl who should be so pretty but I am. I am the kind of girl who should be locked away in a tower.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers. Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
Dead girl walking, the boys say in the halls. Tell us your secret, the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
You were as close as God could get, and I was as far as you could run.
I am trapped by the future and eluded by the past. I am not the present. Not yet.
I am not broken, I am free.
I am not a girl, not yet a ghost.
I am spinning and flailing in the mud of my life.
I am not a collection of symptoms; I am a person.
I am not hungry. I am starving.





