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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

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last. — 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

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged. — Marya Mannes

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

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions. — Marya Mannes

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

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love. — Marya Mannes

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

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. — Marya Mannes

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

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained ... — 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

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. — Marya Mannes

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

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both. — 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

There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much". — Marya Sy

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. — 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

Before you are beginning your first step, let's pray first. — Marya Sy

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