Alex

“I just wanted to grow up. I wanted to experience life. I wanted my life to be as expansive as I felt my mind was, my imagination was.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“It's easy for them to have opinions, and express them with confidence. They don't worry about appearing ignorant or conceited. They are not stupid people, but they're not so much smarter than him either. They just move through the world in a different way, and he'll probably never really understand them, and he knows they will never understand him, or even try.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Yet I still wanted to end my life. No, that's not quite it. I felt like I had to end my life. To me, it had already seemed over. All those hopes and dreams I'd held so close to my heart had gone with everything else. In their place was a dark void from which I never thought I'd escape. My body might have been alive, but my soul was dead.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Working hard is great when it's motivated by passion and love and enthusiasm. But working hard when it's motivated by deprivation is not pleasant.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me