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“It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll put into the scheming and maneuvering. That's determination for you. I would have made a good bounty hunter.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“I want to belong. Belonging makes things okay, and I want to be okay. I just want to be okay.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you'll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“An addict newly separated from their thing, whether it's drinking, drugs, throwing up ten times a day or anything else is like a person with no head. Your entire identity goes M.I.A. once you're no longer doing it.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass