nathan add a quote by Jamie Weise

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:28:14 -0700

"She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her head. A battle she never felt worth fighting." -- Jamie Weise

nathan add a quote by Cassandra Clare

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:28:21 -0700

"Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart" -- Cassandra Clare

nathan add a quote by Amanda Grace

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:28:33 -0700

"What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone." -- Amanda Grace

nathan add a quote by E.A. Bucchianeri

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:28:35 -0700

"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." -- E.A. Bucchianeri

nathan add a quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:00:31 -0700

"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore." -- Laurie Halse Anderson

nathan add a quote by Marya Hornbacher

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:00:55 -0700

"We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need." -- Marya Hornbacher

nathan add a quote by Marya Hornbacher

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:01:10 -0700

"I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death." -- Marya Hornbacher

nathan add a quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:01:21 -0700

"I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made." -- Laurie Halse Anderson

nathan add a quote by Khalil Gibran

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:01:50 -0700

"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons." -- Khalil Gibran

nathan add a quote by Marya Hornbacher

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:07 -0700

"I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry." -- Marya Hornbacher

nathan add a quote by Portia de Rossi

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:27 -0700

"Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again." -- Portia de Rossi

nathan add a quote by Jena Morrow

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:37 -0700

"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." -- Jena Morrow

nathan add a quote by Caroline Kettlewell

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:44 -0700

"The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds." -- Caroline Kettlewell

nathan add a quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:50 -0700

"The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it." -- Laurie Halse Anderson

nathan add a quote by Marya Hornbacher

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:58 -0700

"He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall." -- Marya Hornbacher

nathan add a quote by Harriet Brown

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:03:20 -0700

"Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life in a different way, lost it to the roller coaster of relapse and recovery, inpatient and outpatient, that eats up, on average, five to seven years. Or a lifetime: only half of all anorexics recovery in the end. The other half endure lives of dysfunction and despair. Friends and families give up on them. Doctors dread treating them. They’re left to stand in the bakery with the voice ringing in their ears, alone in every way that matters." -- Harriet Brown

nathan add a quote by Stacy Pershall

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:03:30 -0700

"[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" -- Stacy Pershall

nathan add a quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:03:33 -0700

"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water." -- Jeffrey Eugenides

nathan add a quote by Marya Hornbacher

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:03:41 -0700

"No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath." -- Marya Hornbacher

nathan add a quote by Kate M. Taylor

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:03:50 -0700

"Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it." -- Kate M. Taylor

nathan add a quote by Jonathan Rosen

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:04:17 -0700

"Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die." -- Jonathan Rosen

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:04:33 -0700

"How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control." -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:04:43 -0700

"She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?" -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:04:54 -0700

"Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner." -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:05:03 -0700

"She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it." -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:05:17 -0700

"Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite." -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Steven Levenkron

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:05:23 -0700

"Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful." -- Steven Levenkron

nathan add a quote by Lynn Crilly

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:29:55 -0700

"Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness of the mind." -- Lynn Crilly

nathan add a quote by Caroline Kettlewell

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:29:56 -0700

"Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat." -- Caroline Kettlewell

nathan add a quote by Lynn Crilly

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:29:59 -0700

"Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated." -- Lynn Crilly