You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants. Marya Hornbacher More Quotes by Marya Hornbacher More Quotes From Marya Hornbacher You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad. Marya Hornbacher self-harm distance suicide There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way. Marya Hornbacher together want way I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others. Marya Hornbacher examination reflection dark After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. Marya Hornbacher silence speak lifetime My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending. Marya Hornbacher erratic useless heart I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical. Marya Hornbacher perfectionist driven self Children take in more information than we'd like to believe. Marya Hornbacher information believe children I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“. Marya Hornbacher excess jeans eye The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. Marya Hornbacher biggest-fear dying life-is My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. Marya Hornbacher different parent kids I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. Marya Hornbacher maintenance people thinking So many means of self-destruction, so little time. Marya Hornbacher self littles mean
