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1 " ...they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING... "
― Kristan Higgins , Good Luck with That
2 " It’s not easy, you know, to be in love with your husband and watch him slowly grow disappointed with who you actually are. "
3 " Yes, I was clad in yoga pants that had never seen a yoga studio and a T-shirt covered in rabbit and dog hair. But I’d been reading. There was no reason to dress up for reading. Books didn’t care. Books were just happy to be read. "
4 " True peace was rare when you were fat. When you were fat, you wore armor to protect and deflect. You were either sharp and bitter, inspiring fear in potential bullies, or you were extra cheerful to show nothing mattered at all, not the snubs or the insults or the degradation. When you were fat, you worked so hard to be invisible. You lived in fear of being noticed, singled out, of having someone point out what you already knew. "
5 " Life was kind and full of chances. Sometimes we didn’t take them. Sometimes we hid our truth and acted out of fear. Sometimes we turned away and closed the door. "
6 " All the misery of being a fat teenager in America, trying so hard to be invisible, quiet, not to draw attention to myself. "
7 " Leo the piano teacher taught out of a garden apartment and lived upstairs with his girlfriend, Jenny. "
8 " When you’re surrounded by peers at their peak of beauty, it’s impossible to forget your own imperfections. My weight was like a Dementor, always close, always stealing happiness, something I always tried and failed to escape. "
9 " understood.Blue highlight | Location: 2,477I smile at everyone because I’m afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don’t do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I’m talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia. "
10 " Going to the doctor when you’re fat is a string of humiliations. The second you walk in, you only have one problem. You could have a spear through your heart, and the doctor would say, Eighteen hundred calories a day, lots of green leafy vegetables, and forty-five minutes of cardio every day, and that spear will be no problem! "
11 " You could be fulfilled just the same . . . and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while. "
12 " I want to be with someone. I want to be part of a couple. I want kids. He’s a good person, Georgia. All I have to do is—what’s that saying?—make the scales fall from his eyes, and I think he could love me. "