“Eat like you love your body.”
― Think Great: Be Great!
― Think Great: Be Great!
“I had always liked my anorexic reflection. It meant seeing the parts instead of the whole. Each connection, each articulation of muscle, skin, and bone made explicit. Gert said that we all had distorted images of ourselves. Either fatter or skinnier than we really were. She said we hated our bodies, hated ourselves. I had never thought so.”
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“Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours”
― The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope
― The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope
“MY MOON
I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light.
I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.
And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.”
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I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light.
I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.
And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.”
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“I was always a good girl. I was a straight-A student, top of my class. I did as I was told. I was polite to my elders. I was good to my siblings. I went to church. It was very easy to hide how very bad I was becoming from my family, from everyone. Being good is the best way to be bad.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
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