Marya Hornbacher




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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia a... Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by Marya Hornbacher
avg rating 3.95 — 2,141 ratings — published 2006
11 editions
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Madness: A Bipolar Life Madness: A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher
avg rating 3.78 — 561 ratings — published 2008
4 editions
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The Center of Winter: A Novel The Center of Winter: A Novel
by Marya Hornbacher
avg rating 3.62 — 196 ratings — published 2005
4 editions
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Madness: A Bipolar Life Madness: A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 2008
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Maddness Maddness
by Marya Hornbacher
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008
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Wasted Wasted
by Marya Hornbacher
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2005
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Madness: A Bipolar Life Madness: A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
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Madness Madness
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Center of Winter Center of Winter
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Wasted Wasted
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"There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way."
Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)
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"You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad."
Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)
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"I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death."
Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)
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