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“Sometimes you have to look ridiculous to have a good time.
a man who’d never seen the sun didn’t know to miss its warmth,
Funny how nostalgia glossed over the rough edges.
should have been enough to soothe whatever emptiness in her psyche needed validation—that she was smart enough and worthy enough—
There was nothing she couldn’t do with enough embittered feminism and classist rage.
learning was about finding meaning—finding answers. That connecting the dots is exciting. It’s about finding a sense of wonder in the ordinary.
ADHD might grant her superpowers, but it also meant her brain did a piss-poor job of regulating emotions; bad feelings could balloon out of control fast and swallow her for hours.
You know, being wealthy isn’t a crime, Maxine.” She muttered, “The shit people do to become wealthy usually is.”
A feline’s regard was hard won.
that individuals with ADHD are so often infantilized by well-meaning but unintentionally hurtful instructors and caregivers.
If only he weren’t so afraid to jump.
You can’t wait out probability; you have to act on it to change it.”
I like to be scared. It’s a sign I’m doing something bold. Something worthwhile.
“Embrace the fear. Accept that it’s always gonna be there, under everything else, and get busy living.”
(Spite: the breakfast of champions.)
The modern world was a palace built for typical brains.
“To learn without involving emotion isn’t fully learning at all.
“I’d pray for you, but I think even God’s afraid of her.”
Whenever he saw her for the first time on any given day, he fell in love again as forcefully as if he’d never met her before.
Perfectly lovable, exactly as she was.
“‘Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, crying has always been a sign we are alive,’”
he’d struggled to imagine an intangible need so visceral it had the power to overrule logic. But that was before he’d discovered love.
