15 Quotes by Clare B. Dunkle

It’s a prison. It’s twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we’ve already figured out all the same tricks – and each one of us did it on our own.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you’re killing it twice.

You’ve caught a goblin, my dear, all for your very own.

Kate felt very offended. ‘I am not an elf,’ she insisted. ‘I’m an Englishwoman!

Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.

Then-then I’m not going to die? Well, then-crap!-what am I doing here, Anyway?