Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.