“The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness.”
“I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.”
“I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.”
“You're having a large disappointment," she drawled, "with a side of rare pissed-offedness."I thought about lying outright. But as it was medium disappointment with a side of self-pity, I just shrugged.”
“I went to sleep a poet and I woke up a fraud. To calm your nerves I'm feeling for my clothes in the dark.”
“I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted”