so it goes

“We learned in the past, but we are not a result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new.” — Aleph, Paulo Coelho

Book Challenge Day 1: Favorite book

Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

As a person who suffers from depression, this book held a lot of meaning for me. It so eloquently expressed so much of what makes depression a debilitating disease. Yes, disease, not something you can control or power through. It really changed the way I thought of my own depression. Instead of always being hard on myself for being broken, I started to commend myself for being strong enough to still be here at all. 

I recommend it to anyone who has depression, knows someone who has depression, or generally wants to make themselves a more understanding person. Here are some of my favorite quotes:

“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.” 

“I hated him for not being depressed. He seemed a fool-everyone who didn’t feel like me was a fool. I alone knew the truth about life, knew that it was all a miserable downward spiral that you could either admit to or ignore, but sooner or later we are all going to die.”

“I really don’t think there’s any such thing as an accidental blowjob.”

“I am crying because whatever my gifts, the piece of good buried inside and under so much that I feel is bad, is wrong, is twisted, are less clear than the ability to hit a ball with a bat and break the scoreboard or do a triple pirouette on ice. My gifts are for life itself, for an unfortunately astute understanding of all the pain in the world. My gifts are unspecific. I am an artist manque, someone full of crazy ideas and grandiloquent needs and even a little bit of happiness, but with no particular way to express it.”

Posted:3 months ago

12 notes

  1. themosttwisted reblogged this from slimed-by-society
  2. slimed-by-society reblogged this from readlikebreathing
  3. lesbighost reblogged this from readlikebreathing and added:
    watched the movie when...was particularly deep into...just...
  4. readlikebreathing posted this

Vivid Theme by JoachimT