“I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.”
― Hollow: An Unpolished Tale
― Hollow: An Unpolished Tale
“[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You're at a party. The popular girls are there. You know you can never be as cool as they are, but when one of the pops a potato chip into her mouth or chooses real Coke over Diet, for that moment you are better”
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“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.”
― Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia
― Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
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