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Kids hate you when you screw up their lives and even when you don’t. It’s not really hate, though. It’s a childish rage mingled with desperate love and a deep disappointment that you’ve turned out to be a human full of flaws and bad
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“How can you desire someone who hurts you? How can you miss him so much your body aches? Maybe not him, the man he actually was, but the man I thought he was. We cling to our ideas of people, don’t we? We hold on tight even when all evidence points to something else.”
― The Sleep Tight Motel
― The Sleep Tight Motel
“Which leaves anxiety and autism…” Oliver tilted his head, deep in thought. “While I do experience intrusive thoughts from time to time, I wouldn’t necessarily categorize it as ‘persistent worry’, which is a key symptom of anxiety. And if you look at the technical definition of the disorder, I’m actually a bit more—” “Autistic!” Kat threw up her hands. “You are aggressively autistic.” “Knock it off,” I warned Kat. “Autistic, of course.” Oliver nodded and returned to his book. “That makes more sense.”
― The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School
― The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School
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