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  • #1
    “I was carefully constructing my own private hell.”
    Anonymous

  • #2
    Rupi Kaur
    “the way they
    leave
    tells you
    everything”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #3
    “We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.
    So that was that. We were finally, finally over.
    I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'
    I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’d
    always been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.
    Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.
    I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'
    I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.
    'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'
    I was the one to look away first.”
    Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

  • #4
    Rupi Kaur
    “sex takes the consent of two
    if one person is lying there not doing anything
    cause they are not ready
    or not in the mood
    or simply don't want to
    yet the other is having sex
    with their body it's not love
    it is rape”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: rape

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  • #6
    Marya Hornbacher
    “He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #7
    Rupi Kaur
    “To be soft is to be powerful”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #8
    “All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.”
    Heyward Ewart, AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse

  • #9
    Rupi Kaur
    “trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does”
    Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

  • #10
    Rupi Kaur
    “and here you are living
    despite it all”
    Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

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  • #12
    “I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #13
    Marya Hornbacher
    “You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all the time, and you can't remember what it was like before. People take the feeling of full for granted. They take for granted the feeling of steadiness, of hands that do not shake, heads that do not ache, throats not raw with bile and small rips of fingernails forced to haste to the gag spot. Stomachs that do not begin to wake up in the night, calves and thighs knotting in muscles that are beginning to eat away at themselves. they may or may not be awakened at night by their own inexplicable sobs.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #14
    Rupi Kaur
    “do not bother holding onto
    that thing that does not want you

    -you cannot make it stay”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #15
    Rupi Kaur
    “the rape will
    tear you
    in half

    but it
    will not
    end you”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #16
    Rupi Kaur
    “you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

  • #17
    Marya Hornbacher
    “We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #18
    Rupi Kaur
    “the next time you
    have your coffee black
    you'll taste the bitter state he left you in
    it will make you weep
    but you'll never
    stop drinking
    you'd rather have the
    darkest parts of him
    than have nothing”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #19
    Jena Morrow
    “I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.”
    Jena Morrow, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale

  • #20
    Rupi Kaur
    “don’t mistake
    salt for sugar
    if he wants to
    be with you
    he will
    it’s that simple”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #21
    Geneen Roth
    “When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself -- that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control (p.82-83)”
    Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

  • #22
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #23
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am
    made of water
    of course i am emotional”
    Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

  • #24
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #25
    Rupi Kaur
    “stay strong through your pain
    grow flowers from it
    you have helped me
    grow flowers out of mine so
    bloom beautifully
    dangerously
    loudly
    bloom softly
    however you need
    just bloom”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #26
    Harriet  Brown
    “Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life in a different way, lost it to the roller coaster of relapse and recovery, inpatient and outpatient, that eats up, on average, five to seven years. Or a lifetime: only half of all anorexics recovery in the end. The other half endure lives of dysfunction and despair. Friends and families give up on them. Doctors dread treating them. They’re left to stand in the bakery with the voice ringing in their ears, alone in every way that matters.”
    Harriet Brown

  • #27
    Rupi Kaur
    “you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

  • #28
    Shauna Niequist
    “I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
    Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

  • #29
    Rupi Kaur
    “people go but how they left always stays”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath



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