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  • #1
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. ”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #2
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #3
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #4
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #5
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #6
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #7
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: love

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #13
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #14
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: life

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #18
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #19
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

  • #20
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #22
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #23
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #25
    Rachel Hawkins
    “It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.”
    Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass

  • #26
    Jandy Nelson
    “My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #27
    Kristina McMorris
    “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
    Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

  • #28
    Jane Hamilton
    “...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”
    Jane Hamilton

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

    At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #30
    Robin McKinley
    “I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”
    Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast



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