December 2010
149 posts
“Sometimes, I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow; there’s nothing behind my...”
– S. Plath (via claudere)
“They would get lost or stuck in between old and new habits, sometimes years...”
– Gaining power
“My disorder was a path I’d created early on and worn through use into a...”
– Gaining power
“.. her siege of loss had endowed her with a gift that she could offer to others...”
– A wider world
“When I feel powerful, it’s still easy for me to withdraw from that...”
– Gaining power
“But now she was paying more attention to the ways she channeled that drive, and...”
– A wider world
“It’s a focus thing. It gets you away from the demons that are wandering...”
– A wider world
ingenue.
life will surely be measured in how deep my mind is and all i do is set it up for a shallow flunking. the devil says i have something to lose, skeletons to lose track of. i can’t be so careless like i wish i could be. i’m mad and rather drunk. and i’m angry that she still walks around the house reciting words straight from the satan i try to shun.
“She’s forever taking in and spitting out, and nothing ever gets fully...”
– Consuming passions
skinnythinobsession-deactivated asked: Where do you get your quotes from? Like which books and by who?
“The bulimic, on the other hand, binges and purges in secret - hiding the beast...”
– A certain self
“You’ve failed to reduce yourself to a perfect object. The knowledge that...”
– A certain self
“The post anorexic riddle of identity, a sense of wild shapelessness.”
– The physics of normalcy
“To these patients, their disease had become part of their life, their identity,...”
– A certain self
“Eating disorders sabotage identity. This, in turn, can sabotage recovery, as...”
– The physics of normalcy
“Contained in the experience of shame is the piercing awareness of ourselves as...”
– Know thyself
