It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear o — Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear o — Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear o — Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear o — Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear o — Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
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It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

— Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
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