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....

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise....

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....