Favorite books

“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”

“That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”

“What good were real feelings anyway?”

“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”

“...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.”

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.”

“Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door"

“Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.”

“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgemental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”