Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image