"It’s easy for me to live in denial. I forget my problems. I’m a plutterer. I can keep busy. I can get the worst news in the world and not even think about it"
"I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so— I don’t know— lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I’m headed."
"His first-ever visit to a library had made him painfully aware of how little he knew. The amount of things he didn’t know about the world was infinite. The infinite, by definition, has no limits, and thinking about it gave him a mild migraine."
