But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic,… — Marya Hornbacher Choice Copy Share Image
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a… — Marya Hornbacher Absence Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is,… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it… — Marya Hornbacher Business Copy Share Image
I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book… — Marya Hornbacher Affair Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Adulthood Copy Share Image
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death,… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on… — Marya Hornbacher Food Copy Share Image
“I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like – the cold that has somehow gotten… — Marya Hornbacher Cold Copy Share Image
“• At 1 A.M. I'd pull on my coat, my boots. Walk down the stairway, out the door, down the long driveway… — Marya Hornbacher Beauty salon Copy Share Image
People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this… — Marya Hornbacher Action Copy Share Image
“So what are the spiritual principles that we want guiding us as we interact with others? I can think of a few… — Marya Hornbacher Empathy Copy Share Image
“You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you’re just going along, doing fine, and then afternoon comes and… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions… — Marya Hornbacher Chaos Copy Share Image
“At first it's bliss. It's drunken, heady, intoxicating. It swallows the people we were - not particuarly wonderful people, but people who… — Marya Hornbacher Bipolar disorder Copy Share Image
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world scares me as much as bulimia. It was true then and it is true now. But at some… — Marya Hornbacher Bulimia Copy Share Image
“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
“And when, after fifteen years of bingeing, barfing, starving, needles and tubes and terror and rage, and medical crises and personal failure… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
![“[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living (as opposed to dying) alone. That nothing-not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state-will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal…” quote by Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb9/marya-hornbacher-2109_arms_i-learned-that-friends-are-a-good-source_2817345.png)
