“You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
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