"She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of……" — Steven Levenkron
"She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!"
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12 Quotes by Steven Levenkron
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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement…
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate…
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Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
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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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Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way…
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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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The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending…
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