Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Together, we will make America great again.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.