163 Quotes About Anorexia

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat--just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym.

If you don't fall in that category [those with an active eating disorder], you might not truly understand how numbers work on the disordered brain. They read like challenges, or some kind of heavenly ordained permission to drop down to a lower weight than whatever plateau you may be hovering on.