“Anorexics starve ourselves to kill our own desires. Desire is the enemy: desire for food, desire for sex. We prefer to want nothing.”— Anna Dorn, humanparts.medium.com
“I soon learned about eating disorders in Hollywood was that they can be highly competitive. Highly. Competitive.”— Jennette McCurdy, huffpost.com
“When your body gets too weak, it starts to crumble, but where sick breaks skin, sunflowers will grow. An entire garden will force itself from your empty stomach, billowing out your mouth, and you’ll choke, but you’ll be happy, because at least you’re not eating. You’ll decomposed until you cannot be…”— Savannah Brown, youtube.com
“The monsters — not monsters — will share their secrets. You’ll learn that needle-thin bones, when crushed into a fine paste and stirred into the twenty glasses of water you were going to drink today, taste like lemonade. And you can have a sip for only the cost of the rest of your life left worshipp…”— Savannah Brown, youtube.com
“Cindy Webster: [all the girls are discussing dieting] How about you, Nat? Are you gonna try to be pencil thin? Natalie Green: Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy Magic Marker!”— Martin Ragaway, Natalie Green, Mindy Cohn, imdb.com
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“I am here to tell you that you are more than your body. You are more than a number or a measurement. Your life means more than the number on the scale, or your GPA, or the calories you ate, or the number of Instagram likes on your most recent picture.”— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com
“[On anorexia] Everything things becomes scary and you avoid everything until there is nothing left. You starve until you are barely there anymore. Your bones and organs and still alive but your soul and heart are dead. You are existing, but not living.”— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Living in a world where thinness is seen as a trophy of success, it is hard for many people to see why living in the depths of an eating disorder is awful.”— Alice Doeblin, thoughtcatalog.com