source: Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

source: Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers
source: Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers
source: Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House
source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin
topic: Cutting, Climbing, Ribs, Milkweed, Self Injury