Dedication takes a lifetime and dreams only last for the night
~Stay Awake, All Time Low

(704) : "Tonight I'm turning swine flu into an std this might be how zombies come about. Peace civilization."

everything i needed to know i learned in a shopping mall, don't wander off, know who you are,know where you came from,never let go of your mothers hand, whenever you get lost stand there and wait for someone to find you, and someone will always look fo...r you because someone will always miss you,and when you cry someone will remind you in that soft lullaby voice that sometimes silence is the loudest kind of noise.
~Kelsey Holmes

They have faded but you still shine bright as the sun
--Samantha

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

~Sense and Sensibility, pg 23

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived. At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or, at least, almost so.
~Sense and Sensibility pg 22

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
~sense and sensibility, pg 20

Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behavior gave every indication of an open affectionate heart.
~Sense and Sensibility, pg 17

Its not nice when girls die
~pg 1

Yesterdays dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I'm shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
~pg 7

They branded their war on this skin-bag of a girl.
~pg 9

he wiped me off the face of her existance.
~pg 11

I can't stop, but I can't keep going
~pg 98

We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. 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.
~pg 99

I kept thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.
~pg 117

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...
~pg 166

The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink. I want to choose what I see and what I don't see.
~pg 196

The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when youre not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch
~pg 253

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

She can't help thinking that almost any other reaction would be
preferable, and that it is her own fault that when he looks at her he
doesn't just see a girl... he sees a cutter.
~Willow, Julia Hoban, pg 270

It is far easier to cut herself, to mutilate herself than to tell him
how she feels
~Willow, Julia Hoban, pg 247

Most of all, she can't believe that she let him get under her skin and
mean so goddamn much to her
~Willow, Julia Hoban ph 217

As much as she would love to have kissed him, she is also somewhat relieved that the guard prevented it from happening. Her heart is beating wildly, both from anticipation of how that kiss would have felt, and from fear. Because now she's the one who's scared, very scared. Not of him, but of herself, or rather, of her feelings for him. ~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 217

I worry that my whole life will be based around what's comfortable and
easy. Ill care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really
reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 216
--Samantha

Even if it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed, and not
at something unimportant like school, but at life.
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 216

I realized that what people say, the way they react, tells you more
about them than it does anything else. People may think that they are
offering you condolences or whatever you want to call it, but really,
they're letting you see what they're all about.
~Willow, Julia Hoban pg 196

It never ceases to amaze her that even after all her sessions with the
razor, little things still have the power to cause her pain.
~ pg 140, Willow, Julia Hoban

Except the only times she's laughed I the past seven months have been in
his company. When he's with her she's able to forget the lure of the
razor for more than five minutes at a time. And when she talks to him,
she actually feels like she's connecting, not just exchanging words like
she does with everyone else.
~pg 138, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Of course any sharp edge could do in a pinch, and Willow had used them
all: nail scissors, a steak knife, a mans razor- if he doesn't use
safety blades- that's what she'd been carrying when Guy discovered her.
But Willow is a purist. She likes to reserve her cutting implement for
cutting herself alone. She just can't see hacking her flesh with the
same razor she slices her dinner with."
~pg112, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Why is it that people only ask if somebody is alright when its obvious
that they aren't?"
~pg48, Willow, Julia Hoban

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to
help you discover who you are."
--Samantha

sometimes when I think about you and what you did to me I want to
scream. but I don't because I can't lose control
~veronicasmalls, twitter