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“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.” quote by Marya Hornbacher — Download Open image

“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.”

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“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and…

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The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

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“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very simply, it becomes an addiction not only emotionally but also chemically. And it becomes a crusade. If you are honest with yourself, you stop believing that anyone could "make" you do such a thing— who, your…

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The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

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If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe…

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