{"author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":5978,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking. ","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":10739,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"How can you hide from what never goes away?","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":11841,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved. ","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":13388,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":14413,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression","prozac-nation"],"id":17950,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["happy","world","sorrow "],"id":26666,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"...Occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":26729,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["depression"],"id":27538,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["parenting","personal-responsibility"],"id":31269,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}