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Marya Hornbacher

Geburtstag: 4. April 1974

Marya Hornbacher ist eine US-amerikanische Autorin und freie Journalistin in Minnesota. Sie erlangte Bekanntheit durch ihre Autobiografie Alice im Hungerland, in der sie ihr Leben mit Bulimie und Magersucht schildert. Wikipedia

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„You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.“

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Quelle: Madness: A Bipolar Life

„Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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

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„We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.“

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

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.“

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Quelle: Madness: A Bipolar Life

„The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„There is, in the end, the letting go.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.“

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„My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless… I'm not going to have a happy ending.“

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—  Marya Hornbacher, buch Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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„All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.“

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