‘No, don’t make it a bet. Let’s be skinniest together.’
‘Okay, but I’ll be skinnier’”(179). At this moment, Cassie and Lia made a pact to be the thinnest, most beautiful girls in the entire school. This is when both girls started slowly dying. This is when they became known as the “wintergirls”. In literature, winter is a time when growth stops and there is no hope. Cassie and Lia, bulimic and anorexic, lost hope the minute they agreed on this pact. In the first half of the book, Lia expresses the grief of her friend by focusing on the