Permanent Record Quotes

“But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it’s something I can just turn off and on with willpower.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

“The line between reality and illusion is getting blurry. Sometimes I really do think everyone hates me. Sometimes the crazy is all I’ve got. My head’s pounding again. I hate all this: the pathology and the defiance and the confusion about whether I’m getting better or worse. And yet it is so totally me. I know that none of it ends here tonight. Not by a long shot.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

“Have you ever tried to hold the gaze of someone who’s just complimented you? It’s hard as hell. At least I think it was a compliment.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

“up. “The thing you have to understand about people,” he says, “is that most of them suck, and you don’t want to be like them anyway.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

“You know your family’s got problems when the hippies with the stoned dog are worried about you.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

“You think the things you like are just ordinary things, just part of your personality—fencing,”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record