Questions I Want to Ask You Quotes

“Maybe fourteen-year-olds can't slip even once or everything goes to sh*t, though I doubt it. But you're not fourteen anymore. You've been this model of discipline for years, but you're also missing out on big stuff. You have to trust yourself a little, let go of some control. Sometimes you have to choose between what's good for you and what might not be good for you but could really be amazing for you.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Questions I Want to Ask You: An Emotional YA Coming-of-Age Mystery About Family Secrets and Truth

“If I've learned anything by working with the nutritionist this summer, it's that my relationship with food has been king of messed up for a long time. I've been using food as a means of control, but I've also been using it as a way of avoiding making my own decisions, letting other people tell me what it was okay to eat so I could just go along. I didn't believe I had the power to make good choices myself, or even to make the occasional bad choice and not have it be a catastrophe.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Questions I Want to Ask You: An Emotional YA Coming-of-Age Mystery About Family Secrets and Truth