“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“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 of black wave.”Elizabeth Wurtzel
“As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.”Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me?And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation