The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up: A Memoir

by Evanna Lynch

‘Why don’t you worry that it will all work out and you’ll meet all your creative matches and you’ll be too successful and too happy and too busy with how much work you have? Why must you always anticipate the absolute worst-case scenario, when you could worry that everything will just be too wonderful? Why do you do that? Why?’

‘An eating disorder is always a safe problem that keeps us protected from a risky adventure,’ Natasha continues, ‘but you will ultimately make a decision to play a life full out or to live a smaller life that feels certain and safe. And, of course, the irony is that the safe problem becomes the riskiest of all. The safe problem – if you continue down that path – becomes the rock on which you perish.’