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“Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours”
“Find Your Balance.”
“I know what you're thinking. How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat, right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 1...”
“Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasnt remotely fatjust a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would...”
“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March..........I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was ...”
“The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.”
“A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.”
“Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.”
“Lovethe desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incompleteis the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what...”
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of d...”
“Why?’ She nods. ‘She had everything: a family who loved her, friends, activities. Her mother wants to know why she threw it all away?’ Why you want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yo...”
“When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.”
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top...”
“Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's wh...”
