Maja

“Women turn to food when they are not hungry because they are hungry for something they can’t name: a connection to what is beyond the concerns of daily life. Something deathless, something sacred. But replacing the hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.”
― Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.”
― Geneen Roth

“There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us.”
― Renée Knight, Disclaimer

“The fantasy of the taste of M&Ms is more enchanting than the taste of M&Ms”
― Geneen Roth