Smacked Quotes

“The word storage is really the word for limbo. It’s the place for all the things no one really wants, at least not yet, but that can’t be thrown out either.”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“There is so much I didn’t see, or didn’t want to see”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“Lots of things conspire to create or cut down someone’s sense of their own worth. In my life it wasn’t one big thing but many, many small ones, a collection of insults and humiliations that piled up over time until they were bigger than I was. And the piling up started early.”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“exasperated.”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy