Recovery Anorexia Quotes

#1. 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.

Emma Woolf

#2. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Emma Woolf

#3. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#4. My future will be better than my past.

Lil' Wayne

#5. Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

Carl Nielsen

#6. Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.

Portia De Rossi

#7. Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.

Lynn Crilly

#8. People, especially women, are judged on their bodies. And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, becomes a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and deprivation. Everywhere we look, success and sexiness and happiness seem to belong to the thin.

Emma Woolf

#9. You can love someone so much, he thought.

John Green

#10. You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

Ron White

#11. Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

Lawrence Lessig

#12. I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding."
"To save your reputation?"
Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Emma Woolf

#14. And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

Nancy Tucker

#16. To learn who rules over you simply look to those you cannot criticize.

Voltaire