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    Callie Bowld
    “Your life is worth so much more than whatever body part you are so furiously fighting.”
    Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

  • #3
    Callie Bowld
    “Turns out many fats are very good for my hair, skin, and nails. And my boobs! My God, I had boobs again! ‘Where’ve you been girls?’ And they would probably say, ‘Hiding because you were a real bitch!”
    Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

  • #4
    Callie Bowld
    “You have to make peace with food. You have to learn, and program your brain to understand: your body needs food.”
    Callie Bowld, What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder

  • #5
    Brittany Burgunder
    “No food will ever hurt you as much as an unhealthy mind.”
    Brittany Burgunder

  • #6
    Brittany Burgunder
    “Everyone kept asking me if I wanted to die,
    Well, no. No I didn't want to die.
    But no one ever asked me if I wanted to live.”
    Brittany Burgunder

  • #7
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

  • #8
    Marya Hornbacher
    “No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • #9
    “She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?”
    Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World

  • #10
    “Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.”
    Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World

  • #11
    “Sick equaled thin and thin got me noticed. Being noticed made me feel loved.”
    Jennifer Pastiloff, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

  • #12
    “I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.”
    Carol Lee, To Die For

  • #13
    Kris Kidd
    “I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.”
    Kris Kidd

  • #14
    Natasha Jennings
    “I wonder if she felt like me … like there’s someone inside that is so terrified, so alone … so confused and fucked up … death … it’s welcoming … it’s familiar. Living … that’s the hard part. Sometimes just taking a breath hurts.”
    Natasha Jennings, Beautiful Me

  • #15
    “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, The Girl Before

  • #16
    “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, Second Star to the Right

  • #17
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need
    to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I
    might cut out my heart or take every pill that was ever
    made.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #18
    Stephanie Grant
    “I had always liked my anorexic reflection. It meant seeing the parts instead of the whole. Each connection, each articulation of muscle, skin, and bone made explicit. Gert said that we all had distorted images of ourselves. Either fatter or skinnier than we really were. She said we hated our bodies, hated ourselves. I had never thought so.”
    Stephanie Grant

  • #19
    Peter Barham
    “Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don’t, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.”
    Peter Barham, The Invisible Girl

  • #20
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “They said I had to get fatter.
    I told them my goal was 080.00 and if they wanted my respect, they'd better stop lying to me.
    When my brain started working again, I checked their math. Someone had made a mistake because they didn't figure in the snakes in my head and the thick shadows hiding inside the cage of my ribs.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #21
    “She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch.”
    Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

  • #23
    Kahlil Gibran
    “And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

    Your seeds shall live in my body,
    And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
    And your fragrance shall be my breath,
    And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #24
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #25
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
    like I always thought I would.”
    Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

  • #26
    Portia de Rossi
    “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, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

  • #27
    Aberjhani
    “History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.”
    Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

  • #28
    Ann Richards
    “I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
    Ann Richards

  • #29
    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

  • #30
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls



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