Polly Atkin > Quotes

“This book is for everyone who has been told they are not broken, when they are holding up their body full of cracks as evidence. For everyone who has been told there is nothing wrong this them, when they know there is something very wrong with them, everyone who has been told they are too sensitive. That they need to do more exercise, or less. That they just need to get outside, reconnect with nature. That they need to take up yoga or prayer. That they only appear to be ill because they are too fat or too thin. That they are making themselves ill, consciously, or unconsciously, with their wrong behavior. That they need to eat more or less or differently. That they have the wrong attitude. That they just don't want to be well.”
― Polly Atkin, Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better

“For a while I feel released from its hold, as much as I know it might claim rights over me. I tell myself it does not own me. But all I had done was close off one door of many. The other place is a world inside me, I carry with me wherever I go.”
― Polly Atkin, Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better