“We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents’ meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they’re doing. We’re the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.”
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“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn't spend so much time on the Internet, because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Expensive restaurants have bigger gaps between the tables. First class on airplanes has no middle seats. Exclusive hotels have separate entrances for guests staying in suites. The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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