Frases de Marya Hornbacher (37 citas)

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“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

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Marya Hornbacher libro Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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“Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.”

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“You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.”

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Fuente: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.”

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“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”

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“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”

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“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”

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“I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.”

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“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”

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“And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.”

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“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”

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“It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.”

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“I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”

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Fuente: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.”

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“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.”

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“But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.”

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“He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.”

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“There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.”

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“My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless… I'm not going to have a happy ending.”

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“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

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“Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.”

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Fuente: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

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“Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.”

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“The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.”

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“I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.”

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“No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.”

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“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”

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“When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.”

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“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”

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“For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.”

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