The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand.
The mother I’m completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I’d like to love to death. Heh. Don’t do me any favors; only laugh if it’s funny. It is!
She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predi...
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
People don’t make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.
Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in fr...
I can’t function here anymore. I mean in life: I can’t function in this life. I’m no better off than when I was in bed last night, with one difference: when I was in my own bed—or my mom’s—I could do...
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
Do you have difficulty sleeping?Sometimes not. When I do it’s bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I’ve done is a failure, death and failure, and there’s no hope for me except being...
Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.
Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn’t coffee on this earth, I’d be dead.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways.
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
A guy from Bear Stearns had visited our class, thin and bald with a gold watch. He told us that if we were interested in getting into finance, we had better work hard and smart because a lot of machin...
Why were the other kids doing better than me? Because they were better, that's why That's what I knew every time I sat down online or got on the subway to Aaron's house. Other people weren't smoking o...
Why are you bothering? You've got an excuse. You've got bad blood. You must like living; I guess I would if I were you.