I'll fail.""At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

That's worst than gonerreha, man!

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

I’m not looking for self-control.

I think people should look cute all the time.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.