Home > Work > Wintergirls
121 " Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all "a disappointment". Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For a while. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's too late because you are mainlining it now, straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop. "
― Laurie Halse Anderson , Wintergirls
122 " Light up the stars in your brain, electrify your body, buckle on your smile, and everybody will love you again. "
123 " you are not dead, but you are not alive. "
124 " Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti. "
125 " My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again. "
126 " The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism "
127 " ...It's harder to take a punch than to give one. "
128 " It's an antique mirror with little waves on the surface of it. Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Other times, it makes you look like a pig. "
129 " To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more... "
130 " For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then "
131 " When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody out. "
132 " Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro. "
133 " Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita. Danzavamo con le streghe e baciavamo i mostri. Ci trasformammo in ragazze d'inverno e, quando lei cercò di andar via, la spinsi di nuovo nella neve perché avevo paura di restare da sola. "
134 " Si sente urlare dal campo, bambine di nove anni che si caricano psicologicamente per vincere. Il calcio professionale per bambini è duro. "
135 " I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time. "
136 " Per loro sono una bambola cresciuta troppo. "
137 " Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong. "
138 " Her eyes were tired, but we're seniors. All seniors have dead eyes. "
139 " The doctors tied me back together with twine... They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. "
140 " The doctors tied me back together with twine... They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots "