“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

“When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”