You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

I cannot live without reading.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.