Status Updates From Red Star Tattoo: My Life as...

WOW. Can't put it down. This has been on my to-read for years, and so glad I've finally picked it up

...she believed all human experience was an attempt to create meaning.
You could call it the original sin, or a trick of biology, but in our hearts we wanted order and purpose.
p105

Everywhere there was evidence of our common hunger for a better world, A better life. Here in this city, with its broken windows and needles in the stairways, the sounds of gunshots in the distance- everywhere there was evidence that this life would not do. p65

Everywhere there was evidence of our common hunger for a better world, A better life. Here in this city, with its broken windows and needles in the stairways, the sounds of gunshots in the distance- everywhere there was evidence that this life would not do. p65

Sometimes I wanted to be them: popular, normal, stupid. And sometimes I hated them for not seeing what was so obvious: that we lived in a world where some people succeeded only because others suffered. p47