“I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.”
“If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.”
“Nobody gets their period for the first time and has a nervous breakdown next to a Kohler toilet. Men have such stupid ideas about menstruation, don’t they, Julie?”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
“When tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a nervous breakdown . . . My heart is at work. My soul is awake.”
“What are you going to have?” he asked. “A nervous breakdown,” she muttered and opened her menu. So we’ll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.”