I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.