Head Heart and Hipbones Quotes

“Thinness was like an asset I was proud of; when my friends commented on my stick-thin legs and tiny waist I saw it as a way for me to stand out. Striving to stay as thin as possible was like achieving a goal that I wanted to be congratulated for.”
― Gillian Entwistle, Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

“Most of the time you just tell people you’re fine, when you know damn well you’re not. When you’re struggling with something inside, you can fool the world and pull yourself through the day with a brave walk and a false smile. No one knows that you’re carrying a weight you can hardly bear, and fighting to stay upright. But the effort is exhausting.”
― Gillian Entwistle, Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

“This is the paradox of living with an eating disorder. You know it isn’t making you happy and letting you live your life, but you can’t let go of it.”
― Gillian Entwistle, Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

“food became something I could use to express the internal conflict and turbulent emotions that I’d struggled with since the outset of adolescence.”
― Gillian Entwistle, Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

“So it was much easier to be invisible, and to satisfy my hopeless desires with daydreams and reading romantic novels.”
― Gillian Entwistle, Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia