Quotes by : Carol Lee

While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used....

I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have....

She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful....

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot....

Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he....

The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined....

Doesn' t she care what she does to her family? ' people will ask. ' How can she starve herself like that?....

Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The....

I started crying when the group [therapy] was over because the last thing we did upset me - we all held....

There was another problem with Emma's father, difficult for a small child who already thought of herself....