"I was becoming increasingly aware that I was an exceptionally good liar. My eating disorder was for me, as it is for many of us, one of the only things I could call my own, something that I could keep private."
Wasted, Marya Hornbacher
"If I just ate special foods - my brain would stay still, the world would stop spinning."
Wasted, Marya Hornbacher
"I cannot help but think that, had I lived in a culture where “thinness” was not regarded as a strange state of grace, I might have sought out another means of attaining that grace, perhaps one that would not have so seriously damaged my body, and so radically distorted my sense of who I am."
Wasted, Marya Hornbacher
"People often dismiss eating disorders as manifestations of vanity, immaturity, madness. It is, in some ways, all of these things. But it is also an addiction. It is a response, albeit a rather twisted one, to a culture, a family, a self."
Wasted, Marya Hornbacher
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