The Time in Between Quotes

“I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.”
― Nancy Tucker, The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

“I think I am just tired. I am tired of fighting and tired of losing and tired of deceiving and tired of trying to swim against the ride. i am tired of trying to please a master who cannot be pleased; a ravenous hungry Voice which cannot be sated. I am sick and tired of being sick of tired.”
― Nancy Tucker, The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

“Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours”
― Nancy Tucker, The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

“And it is then that the desire to be free overwhelms the desire for the familiar; so that you find yourself able to say, ‘I will never forget you, Friend, and there is still a part of me which hopes that one day I will, once again, invite you back. But, for now, I need all my floor-space for myself. I’m getting older, Friend – and I need the room to grow. And though I will not forget you, or decide for certain that we will never meet again, for now it has to be goodbye.”
― Nancy Tucker, The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope