Prozac nation Quotes

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. ”

“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.”

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

“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. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...”

“But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.”

“I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.”

“I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.”

“Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.”

“As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.”

“I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.”