15 Quotes by Rebecca Scherm

But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

She hadn’t realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn’t look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can’t fool, even when you fool yourself.

Real liars don’t lie about anything,” Hanna said. “They just lie. ‘About’ is a word liars use to justify their lying, to make it seem like a localized problem.” “You’ve made quite a study,” Grace said, trying to sound light and wry. “But I still don’t know,” Hanna said. “And that upsets me. With a liar, you can never know the whole truth, ever. You can’t ever be sure that this version is the real version. There is no end, no bottom. Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing was a hoax.

Art was there to scratch at people’s brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.