May 2012
14 posts
ursa-lita:
I’m starving myself again: “I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up…. eatingdisordered:
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be...
“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via flentes)
“It’s hard to be happy. Some people have the gift of pulling themselves up and...”
– Maurice Sendak (via voldy92)
“everything i’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”
– david foster wallace (via entropicarus)
“I tell her how isolated I feel and how lonely I am and hungry and tired and she...”
– James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement (via gaws)
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)
“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected....”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen (via mymindismyenemy)
April 2012
15 posts
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a...”
– Tallulah Bankhead (via misswallflower)
purgingmylifeaway:
When an eating disordered person says, “I’m fat” it doesn’t always mean “I’m fat”. Instead they could be trying to say “I’m sad” or “I’m really angry”. Telling a person with an ED “Oh, you’re not fat” isn’t going to work when they aren’t looking to hear that. They may instead be looking for a way to express anxiety, shame, guilt, depression etc through their ED. Saying “I’m...
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t...”
– writer David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008 (via libraryland)
“Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?”
– Albert Camus (via smotherings)
It’s the way you blink on “love” in “I love you.” as if you’re not sure you really want to let it go. It’s the way you don’t look back as I walk away. It’s the way I’m always hungry and you’re only returning the gesture. It’s the way I love you more.
This, it, drives me insane.
March 2012
40 posts
“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge...”
– The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind...”
– Hermann Hesse (via heartmindspirit)
I’ve drifted away from a lot of people.
I didn’t intentionally do it but it just kinda happened. I lost communication with certain friends, and I became more independent. I’m just trying to look out for myself now. Trying to not get attached to certain people because it might hurt me in the future. Sure life’s about taking risks but there’s also a point in life where you get tired of getting hurt. Tired of trying. Just tired of...
