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1 " So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me. "
― Sarah Darer Littman , Purge
2 " But who am I if I'm not Janie the bulimic? Bulimia has become so much a part of me that I can't remember what it felt like not to purge. It's been this secret that I have hidden from my parents and my friends (well, except for Nancy) and the rest of the world. It's the way I can let off the pressure of always feeling like I'm not smart enough, I'm not thin enough, not pretty enough, not funny enough, just plain not enough enough. "
3 " ...I don't have to smile and pretend I'm fine even though inside I feel like I'm breaking into a thousand tiny fragments too small ever to be put together again. "
4 " Things were so much easier when I was younger. I bet my parents would laugh at me for saying that, because in their mind I’m still too young to have real emotions and thoughts and feelings, too young to have a mind of my own. I don’t think it’s because they’re such bad parents — I think it’s because like a lot of grown-ups, they just can’t remember how it feels to be a teenager. It’s not that our emotions aren’t real, it’s more that they’re hyper-real because we’re feeling them for the first time. "
