“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
The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could… — Marya Hornbacher Adventure Copy Share Image
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… — Marya Hornbacher About yourself 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 Life Copy Share Image
The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up. — Marya Hornbacher Long Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Absolute certainty 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
“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
“It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural… — Marya Hornbacher Beauty Copy Share Image
My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm… — Marya Hornbacher Brain Copy Share Image
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in… — Marya Hornbacher Air Copy Share Image
There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes.… — Marya Hornbacher Bathroom Copy Share Image
“We feign disinterest and laugh, and creep into the kitchen some nights, a triangle of light spilled on the floor form the… — Marya Hornbacher Empty space Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. — Marya Hornbacher Difficult 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 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
“They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.” — Marya Hornbacher 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
“As winter went on, longer than long, we both freaked out. My mania grew to insane proportions. I sat in the study… — Marya Hornbacher Drinking tea Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I… — Marya Hornbacher Abiding Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting. — Marya Hornbacher Easier Copy Share Image
