Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.

~ J.p. Delaney

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But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

~ Deborah Hautzig

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We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

~ Meg Haston

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I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don’t allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don’t put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.

~ Kelsey Osgood

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My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.

~ Bethany Pierce

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Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

~ Carol Lee

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At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face. I know this place, I know its seasons - I have hiked these mountains in the summer and walked these winding pathways in the explosion of colour that is a northern fall. And now, the temperature drops well below zero and the deadly cold lake rages below, I feel the stirrings of faith that here, in this place, in my heart, spring will come again.But first the winter must be waited out. And that waiting has worth.

~ Marya Hornbacher

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We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

~ Crystal Renn

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I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.

~ Brittany Burgunder

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Find YOUR Balance.

~ Kayla Rose Kotecki

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Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.

~ Kayla Rose Kotecki

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Find Your Balance.

~ Kayla Kotecki

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Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

~ Nancy Tucker

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I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters’ book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way.

~ Isobel Irons

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Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would do. She started puking on purpose, every day after fifth period. Of course now, she does more than puke. But we don’t talk about that. Because real friends don’t judge each other for what they do to survive in hell.

~ Isobel Irons

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Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March..........I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness...Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape.There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.I am thawing.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson Anorexia Eating Disorders Recovery

Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good, it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.

~ Portia De Rossi

Portia De Rossi Anorexia Recovery

Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone, it is the mind which must be treated.

~ Lynn Crilly

Lynn Crilly Anorexia Recovery

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

~ Emma Woolf

Emma Woolf Anorexia Eating Disorder Recovery

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

~ Emma Woolf

Emma Woolf Anorexia Eating Disorder Recovery

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

~ Emma Woolf

Emma Woolf Anorexia Eating Disorder Recovery

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

~ Caroline Knapp

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