We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia Copy Share Image
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. — Marya Hornbacher Absence Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. — Marya Hornbacher Facts Copy Share Image
You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.” — Marya Hornbacher Change Copy Share Image
“Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.” — Marya Hornbacher Beginning Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.” — Marya Hornbacher Identity Copy Share Image
I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get… — Marya Hornbacher Bulimia Copy Share Image
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be… — Marya Hornbacher Absurd Copy Share Image
“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to… — Marya Hornbacher Nature Copy Share Image
But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.” — Marya Hornbacher Answerable Copy Share Image
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia Copy Share Image
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“And so i went through the looking glass, stepped into the nether world, where up is down and food is greed, where… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always… — Marya Hornbacher Dark Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a… — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia Copy Share Image
When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any… — Marya Hornbacher Emptiness Copy Share Image
“The reward is entrance to the “world of the Spirit,” which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this… — Marya Hornbacher Human life Copy Share Image
At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
“Forgetting who you are and where you are and if you're there. Getting lost in the thought that you might be imagining… — Marya Hornbacher Getting lost Copy Share Image
“As winter went on, longer than long, we both freaked out. My mania grew to insane proportions. I sat in the study… — Marya Hornbacher Drinking tea Copy Share Image
“I didn't particularly want to live much longer than that. Life seemed rather daunting. It seems so to me even now. Life… — Marya Hornbacher Life Copy Share Image
“The night I shaved it off altogether, a Staff named Mark, whose take-no-prisoners approach I respected and feared, pulled me aside, looked… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in… — Marya Hornbacher Artistic Copy Share Image
That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall. — Marya Hornbacher Dream Copy Share Image
“The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.” — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters. — Marya Hornbacher Character Copy Share Image
“There is always reason to care. There is always reason to give. It is what we are here to do.” — Marya Hornbacher Care Copy Share Image
“There is no right,” she says. “There’s the best you can do. And that’s fine. That’s normal.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
