163 Quotes About Anorexia

Well-meaning people in my life have suggested I should buck up and fight it. To them I gently say, I have been fighting my body for decades now and I am beyond tired.

Pero empezaba a descubrir que tu vida es una historia que cuentan sobre ti, no una historia que cuentas tú.Crees que eres el autor, por supuesto. Tienes que serlo. Cuando el monótomo timbre suena a las 12:37 piensas: "Ahora decido comer". Pero en realidad el que decide es el timbre. Crees que eres el pintor, pero eres el cuadro.

Ao evitar a inanição do corpo, não percebi que havia adquirido uma espécie de anorexia da alma, o vazio dos sentimentos.

The idea of being able to become so thin as to be invisible gave her a pleasant pang in the stomach

Wraithlike girls with perilous clavicles drifted through the room, their footsteps mere whispers against the dark wooden boards.

In time, I would come to understand that arguing with a starved brain is like flicking a switch when the electricity has been disconnected.

I was hungry to be thin, rail-thin, skeletal. Bones clicking on bones, sinew on sinew.

Su voz no intentaba embellecerme, intentaba matarme.

Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its proportions to what she could manage.