I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get… — Marya Hornbacher Bulimia Copy Share Image
“I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words,… — Marya Hornbacher Fashion Copy Share Image
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing… — Marya Hornbacher Bipolar Copy Share Image
You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand… — Marya Hornbacher Body Copy Share Image
“Am I ultimately alone? How many of us have asked that question—drunk or sober—when we’ve wondered if there was a God or… — Marya Hornbacher 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
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher Firsts Copy Share Image
“Your ability to withstand pain is your claim to fame. It is ascetic, holy. It is self-control. It is masochism, and masochism… — Marya Hornbacher Pain Copy Share Image
• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must… — Marya Hornbacher Arbitrary 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
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Bundles Copy Share Image
...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on… — Marya Hornbacher Crayon Copy Share Image
I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. — Marya Hornbacher Biggest fear 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
“Nothing in the world scares me as much as bulimia. It was true then and it is true now. But at some… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall. — Marya Hornbacher Dream Copy Share Image
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I… — Marya Hornbacher Billions Copy Share Image
“Call it the feeling of love that connects us. Call it the creative force that drives us to transform. Call it our… — Marya Hornbacher Love 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
“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
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will… — Marya Hornbacher Believe Copy Share Image
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. — Marya Hornbacher Anorexia 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
