Quotes about Anorexia

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I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what' — Michael Thomas Ford
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is up — Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to — Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unu — Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple
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 mys — Jena Morrow, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale
As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything w — Rachael Rose Steil, Running in Silence: My Drive for Perfection and the Eating Disorder That Fed It
Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease h — Harriet Brown
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 — 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
I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion — Carol Lee, To Die For
If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways. — Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned — Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World
Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully c — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem t — Marya Hornbacher
The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie in a black — Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I kno — Kris Kidd
I look back on my life the way one watches a badly scripted action flick, sitting at the edge of the seat, bursting out, — Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other — Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive