A review by amandaaurigemma
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up by Evanna Lynch

5.0

Memorable Quotes:
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I will always have to strive, to stress, to justify the 'being'

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A soul can still drown in a healthy body

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But where do you begin to salvage self-worth and recover yourself, when you simply don't have any reasons to like yourself beyond your disorder?

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Dreaming is underrated, I think, so often dismissed as a fanciful, childish, passive activity for immature people not rooted in reality. But sometimes, reality is truly unbearable, not worth enduring, and dreaming offers the only way out of it: a light in impenetrable darkness, even if it's an illusory one you conjured by your imagination

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I know recovery is often described as a battle, a fierce, gritty struggle, and it is in many ways, but I don't know that that is the most helpful metaphor, because recovery often feels far more like surrendering

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But love, I had so painfully discovered, did not last the way self-hate did [...] I resolved to remember that it was not safe to trust in love. But I would always find solace in my own self-hate