“I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.”

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems.”

“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”

“That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.”

“The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.”

“I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.”

“Just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think "I'm not going to be able to do that" and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up. And then things come up like "You should be doing more extracurricular activities" because I should, I don't do near enough, and that gets pushed down and it's replaced with the big one: "What college are you going into, Craig?" which is like the doomsday question.”