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List of Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 113 inspiring quotes by Marya Hornbacher.

About Marya Hornbacher

  • Born: April 4, 1974
  • Occupation: Author
    • I am feeling fine. i remember these words and recite them. these are the things you say when asked how you are. after all, it would be odd to say: i'm not feeling. or, more to the point: i'm not, i have ceased to be. where am i?
    Numbness Feelings Would Be
    I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when i get my head set on something. i have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. i have no sense pretty much.
    Judgement Brain Moderation
    That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.
    Sex Moving Past
    I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. books kept me company. when the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, i could swear i heard a door click shut.
    Book Character Voice
    When i was growing up, i always felt there was an expectation that i would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. there is no middle ground where i come from, and i am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.
    Growing Up Crazy Two
    And it's california, where everything is powerfully strange. everyone wants it to be home. everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. everyone runs away to california at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.
    Running Dream Lonely
    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.
    Heart Erratic Useless
    Me and my needs were driving my mother away. me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. i started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.
    Mother World Needs
    I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.
    Self Perfectionist Driven
    We were at another funeral party. i wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. no on killed themselves in summertime. it was rude.
    Suicide Party Funeral
    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.
    Letting Go Cutting Hair
    I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? that can't be that bad. it's only bad when you get really thin. who worries about bulimics? they're just gross.
    Mean Worry Bulimia
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