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Marya Hornbacher has 104 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast…
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of…
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You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
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I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in…
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be…
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You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand…
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this.…
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Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it…
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So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
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We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a…
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The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
— Lord Byron
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on…
— Anne Sexton
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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
— Margaret Atwood
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
— Adrienne Rich
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not?…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by…
— Albert Schweitzer
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There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and…
— Ani DiFranco
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Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the…
— Clive Barker
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So…
— Tori Amos
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A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
— Leonard Cohen
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