“Danish. I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.”

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”

“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.”

“Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”

“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.”