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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
— Catherynne M Valente
I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife.
— Marya Hornbacher
So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
— Marya Hornbacher
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
— Marya Mannes
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality ...
— Marya Mannes
The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
— Marya Mannes
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
— Marya Mannes
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
— Marya Mannes
After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.
— Marya Hornbacher
I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
— Marya Hornbacher
People take the feeling of full for granted.
— Marya Hornbacher
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
— Marya Mannes
Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.
— Marya Hornbacher
There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what you can do, to your future
— Marya Hornbacher
But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
— Catherynne M Valente
I began to feel like I was wearing a sign on my forehead that said FUCKED UP in big neon letters.
— Marya Hornbacher
Warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said,
— Marya Hornbacher
Don't worry," Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. "My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
— Catherynne M Valente
No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.
— Marya Hornbacher
How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don't leave me.
— Catherynne M Valente
I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no.
— Marya Hornbacher
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
— Marya Hornbacher
Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.
— Marya Hornbacher
Men are embarrassingly easy to seduce.
— Marya Hornbacher
When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
— Catherynne M Valente
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
— Marya Mannes
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.
— Marya Hornbacher
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
— Marya Mannes
Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.
— Marya Hornbacher
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
— Marya Hornbacher
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.
— Marya Hornbacher
How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
— Catherynne M Valente
Working with heart, then enjoy our time.
— Marya Sy
There is, in the end, the letting go.
— Marya Hornbacher
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
— Marya Mannes
If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, does she exist? I
— Marya Hornbacher
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
— Marya Hornbacher
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
— Marya Mannes
Whatever Marya's state, whatever mine, I will find her, and I will carry her home.
— Josiah Bancroft
I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep
— Marya Hornbacher
The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.
— Marya Hornbacher
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
— Marya Mannes
Infants are interesting only to their parents.
— Marya Mannes
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.
— Marya Hornbacher
I write constantly, trying to avoid the dull pain of gradual loss, trying not to think about the fact that I am leaving soon.
— Marya Hornbacher
That's the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.
— Marya Hornbacher
Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.
— Marya Hornbacher
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
— Marya Mannes
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
— Marya Mannes
Why must the power of the female body cancel the power of the female mind? Are we so afraid of having both?
— Marya Hornbacher
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
— Marya Mannes
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
— Marya Mannes
Starving is the feminine thing to do these days, the way swooning was in Victorian times.
— Marya Hornbacher
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
— Marya Mannes
comprehending little and caring less.
— Marya Hornbacher
My most salient memories
— Marya Hornbacher
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
— Marya Hornbacher
...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.
— Marya Hornbacher
I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy
— John Green
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
— Marya Mannes
That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.
— Marya Hornbacher
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
— Marya Hornbacher
A familiar story, Marya instructs herself - a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own.
— Joyce Carol Oates
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
— Marya Mannes
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
— Marya Mannes
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
— Marya Hornbacher
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
— Marya Mannes
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
— Marya Mannes
Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.
— Marya Mannes
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
— Marya Hornbacher
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
— Marya Mannes
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
— Marya Mannes
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
— Marya Mannes
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
— Marya Mannes
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
— Marya Mannes
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
— Marya Hornbacher
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
— Marya Mannes
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
— Marya Mannes
The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
— Marya Mannes
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
— Marya Mannes
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
— Marya Mannes
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
— Marya Mannes
The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.
— Marya Hornbacher
I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.
— Marya Hornbacher
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
— Catherynne M Valente
The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.
— Marya Hornbacher