Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are b….

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real -….

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning..

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer c….

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Bec….

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women..

It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is sup….

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it t….

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gen….

...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 f….

Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it beco….

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will ….

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’….

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be ter….

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary so….

I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow ….

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..

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, a….

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all..

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful..