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21 " I cut those things out completely, wiping entire shelves of the food pyramid from my life, and felt powerful for it. That feeling of power and superiority fuelled my determination to do better, to keep on improving. "
― Evanna Lynch , The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
22 " I’d found something that muted that pain and took my mind entirely off it. So maybe I was still depressed, deep down, but I had this thing now, and with this thing I was too focused, too driven, too busy, too obsessed, too tired, too numb to feel anything deeper. "
23 " I wasn’t depressed or unhappy during this time; I was just completely driven and completely numb. In some ways, I was the happiest I’d ever been. Maybe not happy, but content, certain. I had achieved some previously elusive anaesthetised state of mental calm. In some ways, I think the only way to be truly at peace is to turn your capacity to feel way down, to not really be fully alive. "
24 " I believe sunshine is the earth’s default state and the clouds just its transient visitors rather than vice versa "
25 " If you spot it, you’ve got it,’ she continues to remind me in moments of too much jealousy or awe for another person. She means that when something or someone else captivates you to the point of distraction, it is because they are reflecting something within you that is longing to be expressed. "
26 " One day, not too far in the distant future, this body will be a pile of decaying flesh and dust in the ground. But for now, she's alive and vibrant, and I want to stop hurting her. "
