You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back. — Marya Hornbacher Complaining Copy Share Image
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. — Marya Hornbacher Absence Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. — Marya Hornbacher Difficult Copy Share Image
The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. — Marya Hornbacher Alive Copy Share Image
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it. — Marya Hornbacher Believe 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 Normal Copy Share Image
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters. — Marya Hornbacher Character Copy Share Image
That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past… — Marya Hornbacher Booze Copy Share Image
“The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.” — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's… — Marya Hornbacher Arms Copy Share Image
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least… — Marya Hornbacher Decide Copy Share Image
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. — Marya Hornbacher Chronic Copy Share Image
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia Copy Share Image
“No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.” — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia Copy Share Image
We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because… — Marya Hornbacher Funeral Copy Share Image
And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the… — Marya Hornbacher Amen Copy Share Image
“By November, you wish you were dead. You want nothing more. Every day, every fucking day, you run up the steps of… — Marya Hornbacher Bitch Copy Share Image
“The lesson of daily spiritual practice is not a complicated one and requires no special equipment; we are simply learning to love.… — Marya Hornbacher Daily spiritual Copy Share Image
I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know… — Marya Hornbacher Body Copy Share Image
And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from… — Marya Hornbacher California Copy Share Image
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your… — Marya Hornbacher Absurd Copy Share Image
“We put an extraordinary amount of effort into how we appear, or wish to appear, trying frantically to construct a sense of… — Marya Hornbacher Identity 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
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of… — Marya Hornbacher Arms Copy Share Image
“This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and… — Marya Hornbacher Getting used Copy Share Image
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter.… — Marya Hornbacher Belly Copy Share Image
“You cannot explain, with the limitations of language and inexperience, why your body can cause such a sudden, fumbling response in someone… — Marya Hornbacher Body 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 Break 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
The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. — Marya Hornbacher Biggest fear Copy Share Image
“They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.” — Marya Hornbacher Solid Copy Share Image
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher Chef 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 Feel Like 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
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 know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting. — Marya Hornbacher Doctor Copy Share Image
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