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“I am aimless and sapped, despite still being in my mid-twenties, which seems young to most people but not to people in their mid-twenties.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot: A Novel

“I worked hard in school because I liked learning and because I saw school as a perfect little realm of intellectual industry and competition that could act as a litmus test for my own potential. I wanted to confirm my own suspicion that if I put my mind to it, I could beat everyone I knew. I wanted direct evidence that I was not like the other people, and that if in life I did not gain money or professional accolades this was not because I was less capable than others, but because I chose not to engage in systems that presented careers as rewards.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot

“sometimes the best thing you can do with a day is leave it behind and then start again tomorrow.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot

“and I didn’t know where else to direct my anger, except at people who seemed more content with their lives than I was.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot: A Novel