"She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself."

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Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jackie Morse Kessler

#Lying Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.”
“What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?”
“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.”
“Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards”
“Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.”
“This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?”

Source : "Question Time dream team panel: From Katie Price to Joey Essex - the celebrities we want to see speak their mind" by Jessica Haworth, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2014.
“Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.”
“Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.All girls are insecure, they may not show it, but they are, every girl believes that they have a 'defect' but honestly, you don't! every girl is beautiful, no matter what she wears, what she looks like, or how her body is. don't worry about that senseless stuff, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”

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