Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.