Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

• I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Drinking, Cutting, Sisterhood

• Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eating Disorder, Want, Dies

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.27, Scholastic UK

• Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Breathing, Eating, Hardest

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.232, Scholastic UK

• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

• He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eating Disorder, Hips, Nightmare

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.192, Penguin

• The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eating Disorder, Skinny, Cry

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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