Every family had expectations, there was no way around that, even if they were good.
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I almost always did work when I got home, because whenever I wasn’t doing schoolwork I felt like I was wasting my time.”
― Radio Silence
― Radio Silence
“The whole problem with boys is that ninety-nine percent of them are, like, okay. If you could dress and hygiene them properly, and make them stand up straight and listen to you and not be dumbasses, they’d be totally acceptable.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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