College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

To start with, look at all the books.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.