Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both,… — 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
