"Madness strips you of memory and leaves you……" — Marya Hornbacher
"Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when."
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104 Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher has 104 quotes on this site.
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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…
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the…
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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…
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I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow…
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and…
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You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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