Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.