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“I used to be so scared of the woods,” I said. “Anything at all could come out of them.” “Only animals,” Solomon whispered, and it was like he wasn’t really there. “The real monsters—they’re all human.”

Humans are so strange like that. When we don’t want to see something, we just don’t see it. Or we tell ourselves it’s something else. That’s pretty much an essential part of how we survive in this world.

The worst thing that can happen to your body is not that it gets fat, or it gets sick, or even that it gets badly damaged. The worst thing that can happen to your body is when someone takes away your right to control it.

"They weren`t gay," I said. "Were they? The two guys in On the Raod?" "I don`t think so," he said. "Best friends, but pretty straight. They sleep with an awful lot of women. And there`s gay people in the book, friends of theirs, and they certainly don`t let society`s expectations limit them, so it`s not like they would be…

"Being a parent is terrifying," she said. "You have no idea. Every day, you live with the possibility that you`ll make some terrible mistake that will ruin your kid`s life forever. You wonder if you`ve already made an awful mistake and not even known about it, passing on some gene that`ll cause cancer or Alzheimer`s or…

Few things are more frightening to the body than getting what it most wants. Because what are you, when you get the thing you`ve shaped your whole identity around wanting?

This is the hardest rule. The one I still have to keep repeating. The one I accept, on an intellectual level, but still cannot truly believe. Your body is just a thing. Whether it`s strong or weak or beautiful or ugly is all in your head. In your mind.

"Don`t the stars make you feel so small?" Bastien said, and there was a slight roughness around his words from where his lip was already swollen. "People always say that," Ott said. "I don`t understand it. The stars make me feel..." I could hear the gears turning, the struggle as Ott tried to cram the whole huge tapestry…

Eating disorders are merely one part of a broad spectrum of self-harm. Cutting, addiction, suicidal ideation. These are all ways to assert your power. To prove that you`re not weak. To show you`re strong enough to control your own destiny by destroying yourself.

Your body`s hungers are simple. It`s the mind that makes things complex, spinning a web of stories and fantasies and prejudices around something as basic as love, until we crave the stories more than the love itself.

God, your mom, me, Muhammad, Cosmopolitan magazine — nobody`s rulebook is right for you. No one will have all the answers. Sooner or later you`re going to come up against something they can`t answer. When you`re a kid, you follow the rules you`re given, but growing up means figuring things out on your own.

The heart and mind are such fickle creatures. Strong new emotions for one person can make you forget your feelings for someone else.

"You`re trying to win someone else`s fight for them," she said, and shivered and hugged her knees to her chest. "But you`ll never even truly understand how they feel, or the way they`re hurting, so how can you hope to succeed?" "I have to try," I said. "I have to do something." "You have to understand who you are," she…

"Your sister acted ike she was a hundred percent in control, but that doesn`t mean she was fine. When I was her age—" and here my mother paused, frowned, debated with herself— "when I was around her age, I ran away from home myself." "What?" I said, staring at her face, but not looking too closely, not sniffing beneath…

I was getting better, but I still had so far to go. So much work to do. And for what? I still wasn`t entirely convinced that if somebody suddenly gave me the power to snap my fingers and cease to exist, I wouldn`t use it. I wasn`t suicidal anymore. But you go there, once your mind has seriously weighed it as a…

Congratulations! With the proper care and feeding, your human body should last you one full lifetime. It will, however, throughout your life, give you shit. Spring new horrific developments on you — diseases, disorders, traumas. Maybe your body came with a free side order of obesity or inherited clinical depression or a…

People only have the power over you that you give them. Unless you`re locked up. Or somebody`s ward. Or you live under a dictatorship. But even then, their power is a legal fiction. It possesses your body but not your mind.