I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting. — Marya Hornbacher Easier Copy Share Image
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher Firsts Copy Share Image
And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way. — Marya Hornbacher Enough Copy Share Image
“I began to feel like I was wearing a sign on my forehead that said FUCKED UP in big neon letters.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love. — Marya Hornbacher Fall Copy Share Image
“They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher Chef Copy Share Image
The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. — Marya Hornbacher Biggest fear 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 Crash 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 Responsibility Copy Share Image
My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they… — Marya Hornbacher Details 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 Hyper Copy Share Image
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune… — Marya Hornbacher Bones Copy Share Image
“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a… — Marya Hornbacher Religion 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
When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great… — Marya Hornbacher Crazy Copy Share Image
Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression… — Marya Hornbacher Blurry Copy Share Image
“The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in.… — Marya Hornbacher Last place Copy Share Image
We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a… — Marya Hornbacher Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It… — Marya Hornbacher Life Copy Share Image
Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it… — Marya Hornbacher Disorder 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 Consuming 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
“People who’ve Been to Hell and Back develop a certain sort of self-righteousness. There is a tendency to say: I have an… — Marya Hornbacher Mental-disorders Copy Share Image
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The… — Marya Hornbacher Cures Copy Share Image
Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf,… — Marya Hornbacher Arms Copy Share Image
“The bragging was the worst. I hear this in schools all over the country, in cafés and restaurants, in bars, on the… — Marya Hornbacher Man Power Copy Share Image
“I do doubt she ever felt so cluttered and noisy and jangled that she put her boot through the ice. As soon… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
