Marya Hornbacher - And so I went through the looking glass, stepped

And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

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Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. HarperCollins, 1998, p. 6.

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