Evanna Patricia Lynch
Evanna Lynch is an Irish actress and activist. She is best known for portraying Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter film series. (Evanna Lynch Quotes)
“And maybe I will live a happier, wilder, more colourful and unpredictable life if I can finally abandon the debilitating and brutal pursuit of perfection. If I can learn to love butterflies from afar, and watch them fly away.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“And where before I was just scribbling, writing, moving from the mere joy of it, now I tried to commodify my creativity. I tried to squeeze it out and make it do something worthwhile, be special be important, be good. But that’s the tricky thing about art: it’s never strictly good or bad, it’s just expression or excretion.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“But you have to put yourself out there for these things; you have to be foolish and idealistic and take risks. You have to try.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“Even if you do initially start out with a keen intention to ‘fight’ your disorder, to fight for your health and your life, it’s not a decision you make once and for all, but thousands and thousands of smaller decisions throughout the day.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“I cut those things out completely, wiping entire shelves of the food pyramid from my life, and felt powerful for it. That feeling of power and superiority fuelled my determination to do better, to keep on improving.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“I wasn’t depressed or unhappy during this time; I was just completely driven and completely numb. In some ways, I was the happiest I’d ever been. Maybe not happy, but content, certain. I had achieved some previously elusive anaesthetised state of mental calm. In some ways, I think the only way to be truly at peace is to turn your capacity to feel way down, to not really be fully alive.” (Evanna Lynch Quotes)
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“If you spot it, you’ve got it,’ she continues to remind me in moments of too much jealousy or awe for another person. She means that when something or someone else captivates you to the point of distraction, it is because they are reflecting something within you that is longing to be expressed.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“In retrospect, I now see this period in the immediate aftermath of recovery as a time of grief. I see that I was grieving a huge part of me that I had not fully reconciled myself with letting go of. But it is tricky to name it as such, because you’re not meant to feel sad over something that was so destructive to you and everyone in your life.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“It will get easier’ is probably the most offensive thing you can say to someone in the grip of pain. You are borrowing from a future that isn’t promised, a future that depends entirely on their endurance of the pain. You are taking for granted a well of strength within them that they may not possess, fast-forwarding through the ugly bits that you don’t want to watch but they must live through, nonetheless. ‘It will get easier’ is not a helpful thing to say to someone for whom only the present moment can exist, so vivid, so intense that it’s not possible to imagine a moment beyond it. The future doesn’t matter to someone enduring an unimaginable pain, so let’s not entertain that childish fantasy. All that matters is the pain that is consuming you in this moment, that you grit your teeth and try to survive it. You invalidate the pain and the damage it inflicts when you hasten to skip past it to a brighter tomorrow. Sometimes things are just unremittingly shit and the only respectful thing to do is to stand next to the person going through it and scream along with them.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“Negativity always leads you to a dead end; you can crawl into the darkest, dankest corner, and though it is lonely and miserable, you know where the wall is, your back firmly pressed against it, and there is something wonderfully safe about that. When you choose positivity, on the other hand, you choose limitless potential, and whatever you look at with positivity grows and spreads and unfurls in a thousand different directions.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“One day, not too far in the distant future, this body will be a pile of decaying flesh and dust in the ground. But for now, she’s alive and vibrant, and I want to stop hurting her.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“One of the unlikely gifts of having an eating disorder is that nobody will ever be as mean as your disorder was. There is a profound sense of safety in being your own biggest bully, your own cruellest aggressor, which is why eating disorders are so addictive and so hard to let go of. There is something so comfortable and reassuring in getting to the edges of your darkest thought, in following it all the way to its fullest expression and burying yourself beneath it, where nobody can hurl it in your unsuspecting face.” (Evanna Lynch Quotes)
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
“We´re afraid that if we fully surrender to our darkness, we´ll never come back from it. We´re afraid our darkness will go on and on and on, that there is no end to it and that we will get lost in it. We´re afraid that if we show these ugly, unpalatable parts of ourselves, it will be too much for others; that nobody will love and accept us, and we´ll be left alone with only the worst parts of ourselves for company.”
Evanna Lynch
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
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