“I don’t have the answers to everything. Or anything.” – pg. x
“There’s nothing more unsettling than seeing one of your parents afraid.” – pg. 24
“If only I could force myself to throw up all of the words, usernames, videos, tweets, and photos I just ingested, I could feel normal. Bulimia for phone use.” – pg. 29
“The need for distraction from thinking about life or death is as old as time.” – pg. 32
“Everyone has one story, if not many, of being bullied when they were younger […]. You never forget the name of the person, or their face, or the awful thing they said to you. Getting insulted is for life, like a tattoo.” – pg. 38
“It always hurts when someone you feel deeply for likes someone new or chooses someone else over you. It hurts worse than it should because you know he doesn’t deserve your hurt and yet he still has it. It never mattered what these other girls looked like or seemed to be like. It’s just that they weren’t me.” – pg. 49
“I know for a fact the saying ‘God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle’ isn’t true because if it were, then God would not have made me a person.” – pg. 57
“Life is just waiting for someone to contact you with something interesting.” – pg. 82
“Seeing my dad cry is like watching a dolphin be murdered.” – pg. 138
“My biggest fear is people hating me, yet I do nothing at all to prevent it from happening.” – pg. 139
“There is something about depression that makes me feel powerful.” – pg. 144
“There are no people who can help you with the issue of hating people.” – pg. 144
“My disposition is persistently that of a teenage boy who wants to leave the dinner table so he can go play Nintendo.” – pg. 146
“The thing is, if you want to have friends who understand you, and you’re someone who is nearly impossible to understand, you might only have one friend. But personally, I’d rather have one friend who understands me than six who would repeat a fucking shit-talk.” – pg. 160
“I am not a people person. I am also not a loner. This is one of the never-ending miseries of being me.” – pg. 192
“And in the midst of worrying about your appearance, your personality, your sexual chemistry, and the opinions they may have formulated about you, you realize that all anyone is actually looking for is someone who isn’t thinking about any of that at all.” – pg. 232
“Every note I get on every script is: She has to find joy in something or no one will like her. And I’m just like, yeah, that checks out.” – pg. 233
“This is super fucking corny, but I guess it took actually seeing the world to remind me what mattered in it.” – pg. 302
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