At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

I can’t believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there’s no excuse for being cruel, even if you’re a bored teenage kid.

How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made any sense, and when she was broken and hurting, so was I.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

[People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.