A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.
I think you run out of 'I love yous
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
We wear our problems diffrently
I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.
I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
