“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 Copy Share Image
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters. — Marya Hornbacher Character 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 Copy Share Image
“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.” — Marya Hornbacher Change Copy Share Image
Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Ability Copy Share Image
Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this.… — Marya Hornbacher 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 Copy Share Image
“What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at… — Marya Hornbacher Change 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
Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.” — Marya Hornbacher Identity Copy Share Image
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be… — 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
“for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself,… — Marya Hornbacher Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God.… — Marya Hornbacher Books 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
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
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 Eating 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
“Here's how you make absolutely sure that you'll keep getting crazier by the day: - Ignore everything your psychiatrist tells you. Disregard… — Marya Hornbacher 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 Self Copy Share Image
“My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet… — Marya Hornbacher Books 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
“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 threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get… — Marya Hornbacher 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
There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. — Marya Hornbacher Facts Copy Share Image
You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. — Marya Hornbacher Absence Copy Share Image
“The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.” — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
“Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.” — Marya Hornbacher Beginning Copy Share Image
