Daniel Devlin

“Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial,
forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are:
two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden