Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.