November 2009
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"This is the very boring part of eating disorders,...
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-Marya Hornbacher from “Wasted”
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“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it...”
– (via novemberscoldfeet) (via christinels)
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“It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via christinels)
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“That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is...”
– Marya Hornbacher, Wasted (via christinels)
September 2009
1 post
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“I’m sitting on the porch swing of the little rented house… I’m swinging a...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher (via fuckyeahmadness)
June 2009
28 posts
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“After a week or so of my lying in bed, the cobwebs in my brain start to clear...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“So I have two choices: I live in constant fear that the next episode is just...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“But sometimes the system fails. Maybe it’s a chemical shift in the brain that...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“Years later, after we’re married, we will cry about that time. I should have...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
– Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia) (via colorhearts)
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“Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“If only things would stay simple: the sound of the foghorns at night, the wild...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“Memory is not all that’s lost to madness. There are other kinds of damage, to...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“Soon they hypomania morphs into something dark. The eating disorder has taken...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“But I do my best. I go home to my empty condo, buy some real food, and eat like...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“A strange equation, and an altogether too-common belief: One’s worth is...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“My terms amount to cultural heresy. I had to say: I will eat what I want and...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“…I was always vaguely nervous, as if something was looming, something dark and...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“My systems… were systems that acted as a buffer between me and the world. My...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“I don’t know how long I’ve been in my house. It’s dark. Last I checked it was...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
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“And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the nether-world, where up...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“Be whatever you want, but don’t let anyone see. Perfect the surface. Learn your...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“I stayed at home to read and eat, or more accurately, to be fed—passive...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“You can, perhaps, forsee a serious of terrifically dramatic relationships in my...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“I have had the working assumption, since I was very small, that nothing was as...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“I was not as I appeared. I liked that. I was a magician. No one could see what I...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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“It is crucial to notice the language we use when we talk about our bodies. We...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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