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“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

“My degrees are the years of freedom from work that I have bought with money aka loans. Unfortunately there are only so many degrees you can do before it occurs to those around you that your passion might actually be less for study and more for not working a job. You can do one PhD, but if you do a second people tend to as you what is wrong.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot

“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

“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