135 Quotes by Julie Buxbaum

In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged.

Maybe home doesn have to be a place.

He’s more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on his mind is somehow different from what goes on everyone else’s. Even those close to us. And how you can’t think about that for too long, because that thought- the truth of your own isolation- is too much to bear.

Three things?” I ask. “I read about it in a book. Seems like a good way to get to know someone. Having to choose three things.

Miney smiles in that way she does when she’s about to force me to do something scary. She’s like Trey that way. Always pushing me out of what she calls “my comfort zone,” which I’ll never understand. Why would you purposely make yourself uncomfortable?

Once I read a study about prisoners with a life sentence. The ones without the possibility of parole were happier than those who might get out. Defies logic, but then, not really. Sometimes it’s the hope that kills you.

Sometimes, when Scarlett says I’m strong, I think she really means I’m numb.

Want some?” I nod, even though I don’t like to share food. Kit looks perfectly healthy, robust even, and anyhow she’d be worth getting sick for, presuming I don’t catch something that lingers, like mononucleosis.

You kind of have to admire her commitment,” Dri says. “Banging for feminism.