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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Beyong Idea Salt Try
It’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Book Figure Hair Remember Write
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Interest People
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Forest Look Tree
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Fall Little Rain Sunny
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Always Long Missing Someone Trying
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Passion People Surprise
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Job Responsibility Simple
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Actually Dull Glamorous Life
My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Children Energy Job
And I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Drug Happen Life Out
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Literature Way
I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Enjoy Feeling Look Wall White

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

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