This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of… — Marya Hornbacher Aftermath 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 Depression Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Closets 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
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
“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
I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the… — Marya Hornbacher Anxiety 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
“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
“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
“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
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of… — Marya Hornbacher Brain 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
I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day,… — Marya Hornbacher Bipolar 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 Happiness 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
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
“Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.” — Marya Hornbacher 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 Memory 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 illness Copy Share Image
Children take in more information than we'd like to believe. — Marya Hornbacher Believe Copy Share Image
Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly… — Marya Hornbacher Dating Copy Share Image
“Remember, anoretics do eat. We have systems of eating that develop almost unconsciously. By the time we realize we´ve been running our… — Marya Hornbacher Food Copy Share Image
