“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”

“I don't want people to know me for my perfection, I want people to know me for my imperfections”

“People want to believe bad things, I tell myself, glaring around at my classroom. They want to believe the most shocking story. They see you as the worst version of yourself.”

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”

“I don't want to be kept safe! I don't want to have someone constantly trying to keep me from tripping on my own incompetence. I want to live in a world where I know the rules, where people are just people. Not one where they keep trying to eat me. That's the reason I left the city in the first place. I don't want to be kept, not by anyone.”

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.”