How to Disappear Completely Quotes

“I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don’t allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don’t put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

“Are you sure this is really the edge? Perhaps go a bit further . . . just to be sure.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely

“I would get so thin that I would be the physical embodiment of sadness, and there would be not a flicker of doubt in the universe that I was exactly that: thin and sad. I would be consumed and ravaged by thinness, by the pursuit of it.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

“Sometimes I still believe that this is what should have happened, and I find myself arguing with God over his decisions even though I know it’s hopeless. I have been given this thing called life that I know intellectually is so valuable and that I’ve toyed with for over a decade. She really wanted it, and even now, I’m not 100 percent sure that I do.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

“The objective is to walk right up to the edge of an overdose, to get as high as humanly possible without actually dying.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia