Angela

“I stared at Eph, envying the fact that he already had a costume, though whether it was actually qualified as a costume was debatable. He was dressed in all black- black jeans, black knit hat, black boots, long-sleeved, black T-shirt, black thermal on top of it.
"I'm the dark night of the soul. Or a black hole. Or something like that," He'd said when I'd asked him earlier.
"You're copping out," I said.
"How is being in more than one costume copping out? I'm actually so investing in this, I am in an infinite number of costumes. It's meta and crap.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda

“Dad, I don't think you can press charges for hurting someone's feelings”
― Kara Holden

“Why can't people just like me for who I am?"

"Nobody likes anybody for who they are. That's why we have to pretend to be better than who we are and then let people
find out the truth later, you know, once they've already invested."

"That makes you sound like a psychopath.”
― Kara Holden