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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch. ↗


— Steven Levenkron


#bones #eating-disorder #skinny #thigh-gap #thin

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner. ↗


— Steven Levenkron


#eating-disorder #skinny #thin #eating-disorders

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe. ↗


— Steven Levenkron


#eating-disorders #happy #models #skinny #society

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. 6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them. 7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound. 8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic. 9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. 10. Plays the violin well. 11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. 12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law. ↗


— Arthur Conan Doyle


#detectives #knowledge #sherlock-holmes #skills #strengths

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. ↗


— Willie Aames


#better #god #heart #mate #pray

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#agent #been #brand #collection #editors

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. ↗


— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#crazy #drive #me #questions #reporters

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? ↗


— F. Murray Abraham


#ask #beautiful #could #descriptions #ever

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. ↗


— Victoria Abril


#director #face #following #hands #happened






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