“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”
“This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too.”
“Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.”
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
“Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.”
“Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.”