JR

“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“You actually don’t exist while you’re in your bedroom,” I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. “Teenage girls in bedrooms aren’t real.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl