Richard

“My life is a joke,” I said. “So’s everyone else’s.” “Mine’s not funny.” “That’s your fault.”
― Charlie Huston, Catchpenny

“Men are an offshoot of humanity as well, but they’re a deviant strain. They’re freaks.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

“Are we going for an anchor or a compass? A memory to ground you, or a spark to guide you forward?”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looked like or what I liked. My actions and reactions. Did I emerge from the shell? I felt naked and free. Was I now pupa or chrysalis? I felt like myself- and that was what punk was. The freedom to be who I was unapologetically, even if I hadn't chosen it.”
― Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In