Kaylee

“Fear is passive, it's reactionary. Anger is active, it's an offensive strike, it's the original hot take. My entire life, I so badly wanted to protect that powerless kid, the one who felt pushed around by the world and everyone in it. If the world was unfair, then I could be unfair right back, I'd show anyone who tried to disrespect me, belittle me, anyone who tried to treat me like the kid that I was instead of the man of my house, which I ALSO was, to regret ever looking at me the wrong way.”
― Josh Peck, HAPPY PEOPLE ARE ANNOYING

“We're all playing catch up. From the moment we're born we're the beneficiaries of millennia of struggle. We've been inherited the best and worst of everyone who came before us, we had no say in the matter. We didn't elect to be born, pick our parents, our circumstances, or our environment. People we've never met, people we've never even thought about, all had a hand in the hand we were dealt and it's our job, as far as I can tell, to correct the bad behavior of everyone who came before us.”
― Josh Peck, HAPPY PEOPLE ARE ANNOYING

“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“But Phoebe is starting to understand that on some nights, Lila is probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People