If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)

by Jason Pargin

“The way I figure it, when you’re given multiple choices with no way of knowing which one is right, you just do the easiest—that’s called ‘efficiency.’

How do we know what mistake we made?” John lit a cigarette while he considered it. “It’s tough, because I’d previously assumed we’d done everything in our lives perfectly up to now.

hey, hindsight makes assholes out of everybody.

I told him that another sign of a true narcissist is you feel qualified to lecture other people about how to live their lives and then demand payment for it. They switched me to another therapist after that.

So you wear pants because other people expect you to, and those people expect you to because other people expect them to expect you to. Our personalities are just like water in mud puddles, filling in the holes of other people’s expectations.” “No. That’s where you’re wrong. I exist as an individual outside of what I’m doing to please others. I mean, that’s why I don’t have any other friends.”