In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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ELIZABETH WURTZEL Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL I had fallen in love with California.
DEFOREST KELLEY I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and rece...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.
ABBI GLINES I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.
TOM SNYDER Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later,...
ARON RALSTON My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had f...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS I reluctantly left (the army). I say reluctantly because I had fallen in love with the army.
JARROD CHLAPOWSKI She had fallen in love with a stranger in the course of a weekend, and she would never fall in love ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played noth...
DAVE KEUNING I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I ...
LISA MANTCHEV I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL It's a long story. Want a refill?"
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER The dreamer in her
Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dre...
TED HUGHES Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only ...
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love w...
MAKOTO SHINKAI Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
RYAN GOSLING My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?
CASSANDRA CLARE I will never stop loving you because I have not fallen in love with you but ' am everyday forever fa...
HLONIM I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and...
TIM HUNT I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is th...
TABITHA SUZUMA Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd ...
ANNE RICE I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that,...
ALLY CONDIE This female and I have fallen in love
ISAAC MARION I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?
AHMED MOSTAFA I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
VALERIA GOLINO In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus &po...
JAMIE CULLUM India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE I'm just saying you should pick a man who knows that he's not worthy of you and who will dedicate hi...
SUSAN EE It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him.
I love Étienne.
STEPHANIE PERKINS Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in lo...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.
I’m listening to my voice as if it were som...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET We had friends who had come down and talked about it. But it's even more beautiful than we expected....
EMILY SMITH Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no ...
GARY COHN I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.
MEG CABOT YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fal...
CHRISTINE QUINN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE And I can openly and honestly say to you I have never had a day of depression in my life, OK?
MARK LATHAM I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
DAN MILLMAN My whole body sank forward into his arms. His lips moved against mine, exploring my mouth so gently....
HEATHER ANASTASIU My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.
NICHOLAS SPARKS If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Love, smiles and hugs surmount disease and depression; I’ve seen it with my own eyes. I love you L...
SCOTTIE SOMERS What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
MARIE LU If it wasn't for my brother, I probably would have never wrestled. He got me hooked on it back in th...
DEVIN HENNESSEY You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it.
CHLOE THURLOW Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in th...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Everything had come into sharp focus: his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experien...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am i...
LORIN MAAZEL I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
PETER ROSKAM [ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancé pulled up about ...
BROOKE ADAMS I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it'...
JOAN COLLINS I can say that I have fallen deeper in love with you today, knowing the sort of man you are.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Somewhere in between, I had fallen for that boy.
LIZ THEBART And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The...
RADITYA DIKA My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacock...
RITA DOVE I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders...
ALICE WALKER My guilty pleasure is vanilla cupcakes! I love cupcakes! I love cupcakes. When it's really bad, ...
GLOZELL I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one...
JIMMY CARR I love being in love.
BRITTANY MURPHY And this fine young prince had fallen in love with a Nobody from Nowhere -- as princes sometimes do,...
KATE SAUNDERS It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
CLARK GABLE It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with
CLARK GABLE You don't know that and I don't know that!
MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec...
VICKIE MCKEEHAN [ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancé p...
BROOKE ADAMS [ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancŽ ...
BROOKE ADAMS Falling in love through the internet is falling in love with the idea of being in love.
MARICEL CONSOLACION Rishte Aak Dhaage Se Baadhe Hote Hai Jiskee Door Kisi Ak Ke Hath Me Hotti Hai
Aak khechata Hai ...
ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome.
CULLEN BUNN Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
MAURICE CHEVALIER I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember i...
JODI PICOULT Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL I had wanted to hate you that day. Believe me, I had. And then suddenly, staring at me incredulously...
KUNAL SEN Look at Love...how it tangleswith the one fallen in love .
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
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ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR