“It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.”

“Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”

“The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat”

“i just recently realized that women are supposed to be the inferior sex”

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--”

“The US is at a point where just when the people imagine things can’t get any worse, they realize their imaginations weren’t big enough.”