The people are Anchors, I say.People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.
My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
Is that the truth, Jimmy? I ask without looking at him. It's the truth and it come to ya! I smile.
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 have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. When I pop into Aaron’s, I continue my norma...
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...
Yeah, and she’s really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don’t look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.
Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It's an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus....
We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still 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.
Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all). I use the Humiliation
The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle,
Let’s concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble, says the psychologist.
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 picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.
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.
But then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
Found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.