Bell jar Quote by Deborah Willis

“So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people…

— Mindy Kaling

“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”

— Vivian Gornick

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

— Susan Sontag

“Manhattan, When I Was Young,”

— Carole Radziwill

“Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I…

— Ken Wheaton

“Yeah, I had all kinds of tragic reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Depression was, in some ways, a crisis of energy. I had heard her say that before; we were in reruns.”

— Wally Lamb

“How many words are spoken in New York every day, just in Manhattan alone, say? And how many are really heard? Seventeen, maybe. On…

— Richard Kramer

“There is a certain type of person who just won't be happy unless she lives in New York at least once in her life.”

— Lorna Graham

“Laugh now, and laugh hard. For laughter is the bell. And when it rings, it cleanses the air.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so…

— Nick Hornby