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

by Jason Pargin

keep in mind you’ve forgotten 99.99 percent of your life up to this point. Can you remember the face of a single cashier you’ve ever interacted with?

I’m trying to keep my wits about me, and I don’t think that would happen if I saw the situation as it really was.” I thought, That’s probably how a lot of marriages are maintained, but didn’t say it.

If you think about it, anxiety is also a kind of parasite.

Depression means expending all your energy to avoid having to expend energy. I wish someone would invent a pill that would give me the motivation to go pick up my Lexapro refill.

They wanted it to always be at the back of your mind, almost as if some forms of modern entertainment are really about creating a continuous sense of low-level anxiety.