

“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”
― The Ravishing of Lol Stein
― The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.”
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Every story is us”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.”
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
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