#rex

ISCARIOT" "A box of doves I placed beside your chest Liar A stork of silk With rubies in it's nest Fire Of my love Will burn thee to a wizened word For ere to go unheard. A mare of wood Elder, elm and oak Liar Will keep you fair If you jest me no joke Fire Of my love Will burn thee to a wizened word For ere to go unheard. I'm old and bruised But my fate is that of youth Liar Trickster you Be a grisly dragon's tooth Fire Of my love Will burn thee to a wizened word For ere to go unheard. You gashed the heart of my heart Like a Portuguese Witch, I'd planned for you this land But you devoured my hand. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#liar #tyrannosaurus-rex #love

[T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age. ↗

— Susan Morris Shaffer

#boys-self-image #muscles #age

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#self-esteem #laugh

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#bulimia #eating-disorders #skeletons #thin #teaching

Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#recovery #recovery

Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness of the mind. ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#eating-disorders

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#always #anorexia #available #breakdown #felt

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#anorexia #country #feel #i #responsible

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels. ↗