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81 " Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here. "
― Laurie Halse Anderson , Wintergirls
82 " I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it. "
83 " I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant. "
84 " I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating icecream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl... "
85 " I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference. "
86 " I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen. "
87 " The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink. "
88 " The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow. "
89 " I know how bad you feel. Trapped," she says. "It gets better, I promise. So much better. "
90 " Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We’re all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark. "
91 " Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. "
92 " You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl. "
93 " We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne. "
94 " I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. "
95 " The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close. "
96 " I can't let me hear this, but it's too late. The facts sneak in and stab me. "
97 " In the spring of fifth grade, the boob fairy arrived with her wand and smacked Cassie wicked hard. "
98 " If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch. "
99 " A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro. "
100 " am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. "