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 don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.