298 Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now – LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

Everything’s plastic, we’re all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I don’t want anyone feeling sorry for me. About anything. Don’t apologize unless you have done something wrong. It is nasty to feel sorry for anyone for any reason because it pushes her away.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word ‘madness’ to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. ‘Madness’ is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

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

He seemed a fool-everyone who didn’t feel like me seems a fool.

Sometimes it feels like we’re all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it’s all perfectly normal in the morning.