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This book is pretty much all my insecurities packed in a book, and I'm not sure how to handle that. 🤧

Gosh grow a backbone she’s comparing about her body so much it’s annoy and I’m only a few pages in...

Damn this took an annoying turn

BEN IS THE MOMENT

Horniest man award goes to Mr Caleb here

😳 damn he’s obsessed already?

“The very sight of you is almost like an affront; your existence is almost offensive.”

“But I of all people know it doesn’t matter how smart I am, or how talented. When you’re fat, all of those qualities are erased. All that exists to represent you as a three-dimensional and nuanced human is your fatness, and your fatness is translated in a kind of visual shorthand for all sorts of moral failings. Laziness. Gluttony. Uncleanliness. An unholy lack of self-control and self-discipline.”

“People aren’t just one thing.
People aren’t just confident and then that’s it, there’s nothing that can dent that confidence. People aren’t just brave and then free from fear their entire lives. We exist in tangles of virtue and weakness simultaneously—we are the best and worst of ourselves all at the same time.”

“And mostly, I’m furious that I live in a world that has the power to make me feel ugly and unlovable because of my body.”