Silence Quote by Caroline Kettlewell

“I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.”

— Caroline Kettlewell

“My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.”

— Caroline Kettlewell

“Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious,…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time,…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“It didn’t occur to me that there was something decidedly odd in finding a box of razor blades aesthetically appealing. I wonder if a…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“How gratifying it is to amuse. How easy it gets to toss off a witticism to ease any awkwardness, to sidestep any solemnity. When…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as…

— Caroline Kettlewell

Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.

— Caroline Kettlewell

“The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back…

— Caroline Kettlewell