“being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses”

“You're - you're something else, someone really special, and I feel completely justified in being in love with you.”

“It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.”

“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world, still understanding how it works; their convictions are malleable, like their bones. Thus, I experience no sudden horrible wrench as my belief is uprooted, but rather a feeling like the right pair of glasses being put in front of my face after some time wearing someone else's.”

“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”