Latest Quotes

“Abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“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.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Shiver of Light (A Merry Gentry Novel)

“Tyler get me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women: A Novel

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

“There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them.”

— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel

“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“One summer, at a honeymoon resort in the Catskill mountains, I saw a young woman named Sheila Kahn fall in love with her waiter.”

— Leonard Michaels, Honeymoon

“I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“One day Karen DeCilia put a few observations together and realized her husband Frank was sleeping with a real estate woman in Boca.”

— Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“'When did you become so weak?’ I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea