Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzelif only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.
Elizabeth WurtzelIt didnโt and doesnโt turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. Itโs only a matter of how long you can live with it.
Elizabeth WurtzelAnd what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.
Elizabeth Wurtzel