Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of gettin...
Nobody had told me I was common.
I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I’d flop around down there atpeace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of—t...
You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's i...
You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.
What were you tring to do, soldier?I was trying to eat, sir!And what happened?I got caught thinking about some crap, sir!What kind of crap?How I want to live less than my parent's dog.
We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we’re, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And...
We look into each other's eyes as we shake hands. His are full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.
They’re sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they’re important— everybody knows that; the TV tells you so—but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is ta...
The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle,
People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it
My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online...
I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. N...
I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.
I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people any...
I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.
I love you, I mumble. Even though I’m a teenager and I’m not supposed to. I love you too, Dad says. Even though … eh . . . No. I don’t have any jokes about it. I just do.
I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.
I decided that you didn’t really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior.