Books & Poems etc

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.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

And I want out of this life on drugs.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order though.
- Douglas Adams
- Mostly Harmless

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I know the bottom she says. I know it with my great top root. It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.
- Sylvia Plath
- Elm

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the dream. A bad dream.
- Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter

Don't let the Muggles get you down!"
- Ron Weasley
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
- Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself
- Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
- Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we really are, far more than our abilities.
- Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure
- Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
- Sirius Black
- Harry Potter

There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them."
- Sirius Black
- Harry Potter

There is no good and evil. there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
- Professor Quirrel
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone

Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
- Terry Pratchett

Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home.
- Terry Pratchett
- Good Omens

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet

Love is the sweetest of dreams, and the worst of nightmares.
- William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

If after every tempest comes such calms may the winds blow until they waken death.
- Othello
- William Shakespeare

If the darkening sky could lift more than one hour from this day, there are words I never would have said, nor have heard you say.
- Carol Ann Duffy

And she smiled at the questions as if to say ‘And if I answered would you know me then?’.
- Anna Nins Sabina

Very early in my life it was too late.
- Marguerite Duras
- The Lover

And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonised herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.
- Edith Wharton
- The House Of Mirth

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness; it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry – school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general – but it was hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.
- Melanie Thernstrow
- The Dead Girl

When I think of all the things he did because he loved me – what people visit on each other out of something like love. It’s enough for all the world’s woe. You don’t even need to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
- Richard Bausch
- Mr Field’s Daughter

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Hobbit

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for te Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where Shadows lie.
- J R R Tolkien
- The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Dragons will wander about
the waste places,
and the phoenix will soar
from her nest of fire
into the air.
We shall lay our hands
upon the Basilisk,
and see the jewel
in the toad's head.
Champing his gilded oats,
the hippogriff will stand
in our stalls,
and over our heads
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be
- Oscar Wilde
- The Decay of Lying

There’s nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
- Edie Bricknell
- Nothing

I myself am hell.
- Robert Lowell
- Skunk Hour

I could not tell fact from fiction Or if my dream was true The only sure prediction In this whole world was you.
Maya Angelou

What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare

If the ending is messy one doesn’t remember anything good about any of it.
- Toby Cohen
- Lynne Reid Banks
- The Backwards Shadow

You are stronger than you seem, braver then you believe, and smarter than you think.
- Christopher Robin
- A A Milne
- Winnie- The- Pooh

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Beauty is truth, truth: beauty.
- John Keats
- Ode To A Grecian Urn

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself. To become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm
- Man for Himself

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
- Quentin Crisp
- The Naked Civil Servant