Elizabeth Wurtzel

"I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out."

"One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved."

"How can you hide from what never goes away?"

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

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."

"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

"...Occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt."

"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong."