298 Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.