Carol Lee

Quotes

• “While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used for a long...”
• “Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controll...”
• “Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears ...”
• “Doesn' t she care what she does to her family? ' people will ask. ' How can she starve herself like that? 'She has falle...”
• “The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the b...”
• “Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he did, and imagined t...”
• “She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. Sh...”
• “I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wo...”
• “her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - some...”