“I was by now used to people being surprised by me and my background, and their surprise offended me. I was always having to be what I was looking for in the world, wishing the person I would become already existed — some other I before me. I was forever finding even the tiniest way to identify with someone to escape how empty the world seemed to be of what I was.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.”
― A View From The Mountain
― A View From The Mountain
“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“I think about why I’m doing this. I think about why I want—no, need, always need—the money. More money. I think about how ironic it is, that in order to become the person I’d like to be, I might have to do the last thing others would expect of me. I think about guilt and karma and survival and how being good doesn’t ever promise you anything in this world—only power does that.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
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