“You can't have everything; where would you put it?” – Steven Wright

“We all have been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.” – James Van Praagh

“The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too. So while you point your finger, someone else is judging you.” – Bob Marley

“Drugs may be the road to nowhere but at least they're the scenic route.”

“I had a happy childhood. I was not personally a happy child but at least things were exciting. Certainly dramatic.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.”

“There's someone in my head, but it's not me.” – Pink Floyd

“Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”

“All the drugs in the world won't save her from herself.” – Marilynn Manson

“We do not have to visit a mad house to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” – Goethe

“Such beautiful dignity in self abuse”

“My spirit, my emotional being, whatever you want to call all that inner turmoil that has nothing to do with physical existence were long gone, dead and gone, and only a mass of the most fucking god-awful, excruciating pain, like a plague of boiling hot tongs clamped tight around my spine and pressing on all my nerves was left in its wake.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“Sleep is death without consequence.” – Dianna Quinn

“I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.” – Pink Floyd

“Be whatever you want but don't let anyone see.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“You were from a perfect world, a world that threw me away.” – Marilyn Manson

“Life is waiting for you. It's all messed up but we'll survive.” – Our Lady Peace

“People are what they want to be, they're not lemmings to the sea, maybe it's time that you looked at yourself. Stop blaming life on someone else.” – Blink 182

“Maybe I'm phony baby just like you. Maybe I'm lonely and you're something to do. Maybe I'm broken and I can't be fixed. Misunderstood, misguided misfit, I'm it.

“How could I let anybody see me this way? How could I expose other people to my person, to this bane to the world? I was one big mistake.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“I hated drawing hearts. My hearts always seemed lopsided and skinny, never round, symmetrical hearts like the other girls drew.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“Pain of the mind is worse than pain of the body.” – Syrus

“I take pleasure in the pain I cause others. My life has become a tear-jerker movie and I am glad to be having a calculated effect.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“Oh Lestat, you deserve everything that ever happened to you. You'd better not to die. You might actually go to hell.” – Lestat – The Vampire Lestat

“At puberty, what had been a nagging, underlying discomfort with my body became a full- blown constant obsession.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“Look on the bright side of suicide.” – Kurt Cobain

“It makes me sad when I think about it, to hate that body so much. It was just a typical little girl body, round and healthy, given to climbing nakedness, the hungers of the flesh.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“I was starting to want to know the worst. I wanted to know how bad it could get.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“Better they should run from me then not see me. Better they should know I was something monstrous than for me to glide through the world unrecognizable by those upon who I preyed.” – Lestat – The Vampire Lestat

“It's as if a part of my brain had split off and was keeping an eye on me, making sure I knew how I looked at all times.” – Marya Hornbacher

“I want so badly to have my life circumstances match the oppressiveness I feel internally.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“And it seemed suddenly that suffering was an idea I'd known in another existence and would never know again. I can't help but laugh now when I think of that first night especially of that particular moment.” – Lestat – The Vampire Lestat

“And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.” – Marya Hornbacher – Wasted

“In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases. Beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before men had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a savage garden.” Lestat – The Vampire Lestat

“I will drain them and drown them until they know how little of me there is left even after I've taken everything they've got to give me, because I hate them for not knowing.” – Elizabeth Wurtzle – Prozac Nation

“It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.” – Claudette Cobert

“If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.” – Deborah Kerr

“You sense my loneliness, my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I am evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me. Mother, I am too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer that's all.” – Lestat – The Vampire Lestat

“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.” – Colette

“I resent the idea that you can't be both sexy and smart. When I dyed my hair, the peroxide didn't fry my brain cells.” – Loni Anderson

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.” – Dorothy Sayers

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I'm too busy thinking about myself.” – Edith Sitwall

“ Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.” – Louisa May Alcott

“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.” – Sally Kempton

“Live each moment as if your hair is on fire.” – Suzanna B. Troy

“I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion why be humble about it?” – Joan Baez

“I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will be really great.” – Candace Pert

“I don't have time to be classified as difficult and I don't have time to care.” – Kim Basinger

“My weight is always perfect for my height – which varies.” – Nicole Hollander

“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.” – Eudora Welty

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