51 Quotes About Turtles-all-the-way-down

"I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life."

"Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did. Even I found myself annoying."

"But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to."

"It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to now you can be anything."

"But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it's the only one you're able to have, the thought you're perpetually either thinking or distracting yourself from."

"Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to become myself was wrong."

"It's just such an odd response to my fiction. Like, okay, follow the thread of thoughts with me: 'I really enjoyed this story about Rey and Chewbacca's romantic adventure scavenging a wrecked Tulgah spaceship on Endor in search of the fame Tulgah patience potion: as a thank-you, I believe I will send the author of that story a photograph of my dick.' How do you get from A to B, Holmesy?"

"For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever."

"Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons."