Julia

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia