The Nix
his biggest fear was to be known and rejected, and the only way he could face the rejection that comes along with being human was to never let himself be known—that way, what was rejected wasn’t him at all, but a projection of him.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
Cheese sweats
I used to think doing stuff like that - hitting myself, slamming things - was cool. Or manly, maybe? I don’t know. Maybe I didn’t think much of it at all besides a vaguely vindicating feeling afterwards like, ‘see, I am fucked up - why else would I do something like that?’
Which makes sense given how little physical proof there is
... See moreconstant fear all these years was that if anyone ever came to know all of her—the real her, the true deep essential Faye—they would not find enough stuff there to love. Hers was not a soul large enough to nourish another.
Nathan Hill • The Nix: A novel
I took a deep breath and said, “Jonas, I’m burning down my life. I want to stop but I don’t know how so I just keep burning it down and soon there will be nothing left and I just, I need help. Somebody needs to tell me how to be a better person.” Jonas didn’t say anything back. He just pulled me into a hug. I barely knew him, and I still wasn’t eve
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