So Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she’d found it had devoured her,


“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: That could have been [me]. It wasn’t. It’s not.”
― Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
― Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
“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.”
― The Best Little Girl in the World
― The Best Little Girl in the World
“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.”
― The Best Little Girl in the World
― The Best Little Girl in the World

“[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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“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

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