I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to start each sentence with an apology or disclaimer. To preface everything with "In my life I've found" so that… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Some people are afraid of flying, and I am too, but not in the way you think. I’m afraid of getting stuck,… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“I MADE MY CATS A WATER BED OUT OF A ZIPLOC BAG AND A SHOEBOX. THEY POPPED IT WITH THEIR CLAWS AND THEY ALMOST… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“Everything in this book is mostly true but some details have been changed to protect the guilty. I know it’s usually about “protecting the… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind? — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“As far as I'm concerned, a house should look lived-in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“Something wonderful about experiencing life with friendly strangers and stranger-friends who all fit in your pocket.” — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“And while our families made their way to the church doorsteps to prepare to throw birdseed at us, we hid in the empty church… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“There's a very mean girl down the hall who's trying to get me fired. I'm no good with confrontation, so whenever I say, "Have… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“Then a man onstage quoted Sam Houston, saying, “Texas can make it without the United States, BUT THE UNITED STATES CANNOT MAKE IT WITHOUT… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“By my tenth glass of wine I started to wonder whether there was something wrong with my palate. Everyone else was marking the wine… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“Hey, Grandlibby?” I asked. “What’s a ‘turn-on’?” She paled visibly, looking mildly ill. “Well,” she said…struggling for words, “it’s…um…the things that make you happy,… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
“It would be hard to believe that a man had invented walls when most of them couldn’t even be bothered to close the bathroom… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes,… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share
