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Marya Hornbacher

Wasted

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  • Bahar Gençtürkhas quoted7 years ago
    A disappearing act, the act of becoming invisible, is, in fact, a visible act, and rarely goes unnoticed.
  • Sufianna Shazuddinhas quoted3 years ago
    both a need to see that I appeared, on the surface at least, acceptable, and a need for reassurance that I was still there
  • b1760775460has quoted5 years ago
    My focus on minutiae calmed me. It was a simple refusal to look up at the larger world, which always seemed to dilate my pupils, making me squint and shy from the glare
  • hippopig36has quoted5 years ago
    If I wasn't real,” Alice said—half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous—“I shouldn't be able to cry.”
  • Arlyn Lopezhas quoted5 years ago
    The parallels in my approach to food and my body are striking:
  • Arlyn Lopezhas quoted5 years ago
    ulimia, feasting on food and then throwing it back; anorexia, refusing food and feasting on hunger itself.
  • Alicia Brookehas quoted6 years ago
    I realized that I simply would not do.
  • Alicia Brookehas quoted6 years ago
    Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others get eating disorders.
  • Alicia Brookehas quoted6 years ago
    And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.
  • Alicia Brookehas quoted6 years ago
    One's worth is exponentially increased with one's incremental disappearance.
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