Donna Cooner > Quotes

“I loved you when you were three hundred and two pounds, and I love you now."
-Rat”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“It just wasn't fair. God made some people naturally skinny and some people naturally fat. I'd never know how my life would have been different if I'd been one of the ones He made skinny. I didn't know how He chose. This one will be blonde, with long thin legs and great skin. This one will be short and fat with legs that rub together when she walks. I just knew I wasn't one of the lucky ones.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“No glass slippers, just a glass heart shattering into a million slivers of regret.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“I'm so much more than what you've made me.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“I'm always aware of being observed. Always self-conscious. I'm evidently living my life with stage fright.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“I finally understand what it's like to be truly awake, and I never ever want to go back to sleep again.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“The hard thing about waiting is the not knowing how it's going to go. That's what makes me really crazy.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“Guilt sears instantly through my brain, but I don't stop walking away.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“But hope is such a fragile flower in the rocky ground of my soul.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“This isn't the way the fairy-tale is supposed to end. Everyone knows that.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“We pass Tinsley's Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“It's like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“The library is the only place where I don’t have to try to fit in. It’s effortless.”
― Donna Cooner, Worthy

“I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“There's a point when he realizes the poor thing is so wounded it can no longer be fixed.”
― Donna Cooner

“I've been avoiding the mirror in the room. I always avoid the mirrors.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“Evidently you can dress me up, but you cant cover my scars.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“The end of the street looks so far away. I want to turn back or at least stop, but my legs keep moving. Step after shuddering step, crashing painfully back down to earth over and over again.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“Long-buried hope starts to stir. terrified, I push it back down.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“You can't beat yourself up over the haters.”
― Donna Cooner, Can't Look Away

“Like it's all so fragile and could disappear with just the wrong look or the wrong words.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“How would you like it if someone told you to cut yourself open and rearrange your body parts? That then you could be normal?”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“She represents every girl who’s trained herself that being good at being fat means avoiding every possibility for criticism.”
― Donna Cooner, Fake

“I know Skinny is here, too, because whether I like it or not, she will always be a part of me. I just don't have to listen to her. Besides, there's too much else in my mind, and in my heart to listen to faint echoes. Instead I think of my entrance. My moments. My lines. My music. Those brilliant lights shining on the other side of that curtain tonight will change me forever. I know it. Surgery changed my stomach, Losing weight changed my body. Rat's love changed my heart. But saying good-bye to Skinny changed me most of all. Because Skinny is... was... me. Now it's her turn to listen. She needs to hear what's going to happen on this stage tonight.”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“She”
― Donna Cooner, Fake

“What is it like in that brain of yours? I’m thinking it’s really, really crowded in there.” He pauses, then adds, “In a cool way.”
― Donna Cooner, Fake

“I felt like an itchy princess whose fairy godmother had a bad day.”
― Donna Cooner, Worthy

“I hate the stereotype that girls can't like makeup and books, because I love both. I just love books more.”
― Donna Cooner, Worthy