A Work in Progress Quotes

“I put on a smile- and instead of hiding in bathrooms I learned how to hide in plain sight.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“All I can do- what I need to do- is work on changing what I think and feel when I see me.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“We're all works in progress. I know I am.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I bite my lip- dig my teeth into the skin and focus on that pain instead of the growling in my belly.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I was really, really good at fitting in. Or sort of like changing myself to MAKE myself fit in.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I decided I'm just gonna wear and do and BE exactly who and what I want to be. ME.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“It was hard to find the right words and harder to say them out loud and hardest of all to see what each word did to Mom and Dad.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“Thinking of myself as unfinished in that way- it's gotten me to be a lot kinder to myself.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“If I can get to a sink I drink big gulps of water- as cold as I can make it. It numbs my tongue and fools my stomach into thinking it's been fed.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“How many meals do I have to skip before I look how I want how I need?”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“Suddenly I was hungry. So hungry. Like I hadn't eaten in weeks. Like my stomach wasn't just empty- but like it had been scraped clean.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress

“I don't want to look like this anymore. I don't want to be like ME anymore.”
― Jarrett Lerner, A Work in Progress