(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.