"Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat.……" — Steven Levenkron
"Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful."
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12 Quotes by Steven Levenkron
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on…
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She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind.…
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will,…
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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner…
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Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged,…
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach…
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her…
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