"She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it."

-- Steven Levenkron

#Pain Quotes #Anorexia Quotes #Eating Disorder Quotes

“My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.”
“It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.”
“Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.”
“You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.”
“When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember.”
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”
“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”

Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.987, Penguin
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”

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