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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl QUOTES

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl QUOTES

1 " But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

2 " There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and shining white pupils glowing in the black sunlight of that other world. —Margaret Atwood "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

3 " Later on I'm going to be really fucking beautiful. I'm going to grow into that nose and develop an eating disorder. I'll be hungry and angry all my life but I'll also have a hell of a time. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

4 " My father has always felt that being fat was a choice. When I was in college I would sometimes meet him for lunch or coffee, and he would stare at my extra flesh like it was some weird piece of clothing I was wearing just to annoy him. Like my fat was an elaborate turban or Mel’s zombie tiara or some anarchy flag that, in my impetuous youth, I was choosing to hold up and wave in his face. Not really part of me, just something I was doing to rebel, prove him wrong. I started seeing him even less. Now, I wouldn’t say he’s proud of me. As far as he is concerned, things have just become as they should be. I’ve finally put down the flag. Taken off the turban. Case closed. Good for me. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

5 " I’d spend hours hunting for something—anything—that would render me moderately fuckable. And if not fuckable, something in which I could grieve over the fact of not being fuckable with unbaubled dignity. I "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

6 " The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

7 " Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys we like. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

8 " I wonder where it all goes, Mel asked me once.

What?

Our fat. After we lose it. I know we sweat but that can't be all it is. It can't just turn into water and salt. It can't just disappear. We don't just melt, do we? "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

9 " What does she even eat, do you think?"
"Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable."
"Sad," I say.
"It is," Ruth muses.
We decide to order two skim milk cappuccinos and split a gluten-free carrot cake cupcake. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

10 " So I’ll be honest with you. In this story, I don’t look that good, except for maybe my skin, which Mel claims she would kill for. Also my tits. Mel says they’re huge and she assures me it’s a good thing. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

11 " Looking back, it still doesn't add up how we went from lying in the grass and listening to the same set of headphones to where we are now. Nowhere. I really need to email her. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

12 " Feküdtünk a fűben ugyanazt a discmant
hallgatva, megosztozva a fülhallgatón, és néztük
a vonuló felhőket. Sétáltunk az erdőben, úgy téve,
mintha Csodaországban lennénk, bár még a liget
kellős közepén is hallani az autók zaját. Ettünk
szikkadt sütiket abban a cukrászdában, ahova a
többi gyerek is jár. Nem nagyon csípjük a többi
gyereket, de azért gyakran járunk oda, a nyüzsgés
miatt. Ültünk a lelátón Blizzard jégkrémet
nyalogatva a Dairy Queenből, miközben a szél
fel-felhajtotta szőrös térdünkről a katolikus iskola
egyenszoknyáját. A kedvencünk az volt, ame10
lyikre egy csomó apróra tört brownie-darabkát,
mogyorót és csokiöntetet szórtak, de olyat, valamilyen
rejtélyes okból, már nem gyártanak. Szóval,
a sarki McDonald’sban ülünk és McFlurryt
eszünk, pedig mindenki tudja, hogy a McFlurry
nem olyan jó, mint a Blizzard, még akkor sem, ha
extrákat tesznek rá. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

13 " She says it's like you have Leonard Cohen's touch with lyrics coupled with Daniel Johnston's sincerity coupled with a Rimbaudian aura of tragedy but with Nick Cave teeth. "

― Mona Awad , 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl