--- title: "15 Way Quotes By Marya Hornbacher" description: "15 Way quotes by Marya Hornbacher. Plus more from Marya Hornbacher and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/marya-hornbacher-2109_dream_that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-w_1458117.png" --- > [That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-way-you-wake-up-before-you-fall/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/marya-hornbacher-2109_dream_that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-w_1458117.png) > [And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/and-yet-you-are-all-that-you-have-so-you-must-be-enough-there-is-no/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/marya-hornbacher-2109_enough_and-yet-you-are-all-that-you-have-so-you_1258502.png) > [My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/my-parents-say-that-even-as-a-very-very-little-kid-the-way-that-i/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/marya-hornbacher-2109_different_my-parents-say-that-even-as-a-very-very_3125629.png) > [But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/but-in-some-ways-the-most-significant-choices-one-makes-in-life-are/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/201/marya-hornbacher-2109_choice_but-in-some-ways-the-most-significant-ch_3046798.jpg) > [And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/and-so-i-went-through-the-looking-glass-stepped-into-the-netherworld/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/marya-hornbacher-2109_death_and-so-i-went-through-the-looking-glass_2631743.png) > [I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-am-often-drawn-to-what-appear-at-first-to-be-dark-or-difficult/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/marya-hornbacher-2109_dark_i-am-often-drawn-to-what-appear-at-first_1247594.jpg) > [When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/when-you-re-teaching-creative-nonfiction-it-helps-to-have-written/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/marya-hornbacher-2109_careful_when-you-re-teaching-creative-nonfiction_1282766.png) > [Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/madness-is-not-what-it-seems-time-stops-all-my-life-i-ve-been/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f10/marya-hornbacher-2109_brooks_madness-is-not-what-it-seems-time-stops_422723.jpg) > [Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/soon-madness-has-worn-you-down-it-s-easier-to-do-what-it-says-than/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3e/marya-hornbacher-2109_absurd_soon-madness-has-worn-you-down-it-s-easi_1452171.png) > [You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/you-never-come-back-not-all-the-way-always-there-is-an-odd-distance/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/marya-hornbacher-2109_backward_you-never-come-back-not-all-the-way-alwa_3162420.png) > [There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/there-is-never-a-sudden-revelation-a-complete-and-tidy-explanation/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/marya-hornbacher-2109_bits-and-pieces_there-is-never-a-sudden-revelation-a-com_1076345.png) > [Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/hospitalizations-in-general-are-blurry-the-days-are-the-same/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be8/marya-hornbacher-2109_blurry_hospitalizations-in-general-are-blurry-t_2445485.jpg) > [I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-don-t-think-people-realize-when-they-re-just-getting-started-on-an/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/marya-hornbacher-2109_about-yourself_i-don-t-think-people-realize-when-they-r_1701614.jpg) > [I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-threw-up-again-that-night-half-afraid-that-my-eyeballs-would/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/marya-hornbacher-2109_afraid_i-threw-up-again-that-night-half-afraid_962198.jpg) > [At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/at-times-it-may-seem-worse-harder-at-least-to-live-through-the/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9e/marya-hornbacher-2109_addiction_at-times-it-may-seem-worse-harder-at-lea_1031605.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Marya Hornbacher > [“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/something-had-been-confirmed-i-was-worth-giving-a-shit-about-i-was/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/because-i-m-not-in-fact-depressed-prozac-makes-me-manic-and-numb-one/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/perhaps-our-purpose-is-for-the-time-being-to-be-human-to-live-on-this/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-have-never-been-normal-about-my-body-it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-joy-is-an-absurd-yellow-tulip-popping-up-in-my-life-contradicting/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/at-a-certain-point-an-eating-disorder-ceases-to-be-about-any-one/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/you-can-t-teach-an-ear-you-can-t-teach-talent-but-you-can-teach/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/it-s-really-interesting-to-me-how-all-of-us-can-experience-the-exact/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/being-here-living-now-recognizing-our-smallness-is-a-spiritual/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/we-think-of-bulimia-and-anorexia-as-either-a-bizarre-psychosis-or-as/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-anoretic-operates-under-the-astounding-illusion-that-she-can/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/if-i-had-been-a-different-sort-of-person-maybe-less-impressionable/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/every-morning-i-watched-the-sun-rise-and-read-a-highly-religious/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/my-bones-are-brittle-my-heart-weak-and-erratic-my-esophagus-and/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/one-really-ought-to-be-afraid-of-self-torture-but-it-tempted-me-it/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/marya-hornbacher/#itemlist", "name": "15 Way Quotes By Marya Hornbacher", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marya Hornbacher" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-way-you-wake-up-before-you-fall/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/marya-hornbacher-2109_dream_that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-w_1458117.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/marya-hornbacher-2109_dream_that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-w_1458117.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/marya-hornbacher-2109_dream_that-s-the-nice-thing-about-dreams-the-w_1458117.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.” — Marya Hornbacher", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. 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The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. 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