Lauren Slater Prozac Diary Quotes

#1. I loved him and it wasn't even a little bit. It was a lotta bit.

Mariana Zapata

#2. The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

A. D. Coleman

#3. Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Lauren Slater

#4. Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

Joan Rivers

#5. All the same, all different. What was it?

Lauren Slater

#6. The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#7. At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.

Thomas E. Reynolds

#8. I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

Lauren Slater

#9. Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

Sebastian Faulks

#10. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.

Lauren Slater

#11. Only by great risks can great results be achieved.

Xerxes I

#12. Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Dani Shapiro

#13. The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

George H. W. Bush

#14. And I saw ans still see everything that I do have, but no matter what, there is always the itch of what gets lost.

Lauren Slater

#15. They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

Franklin Raines

#16. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

Johannes Kepler

#17. In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Lauren Slater

#18. I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.

Lauren Slater

#19. Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

Lauren Slater

#20. One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

Fritjof Capra