Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.