It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medi…

- Marya Hornbacher

All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser …

- Marya Hornbacher

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget tha…

- Marya Hornbacher

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, eve…

- Marya Hornbacher

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

- Marya Hornbacher

You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are n…

- Marya Hornbacher

The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-…

- Marya Hornbacher

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

- Marya Hornbacher

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

- Marya Hornbacher