saving myself

[laughingbox]

'She could study because she approached her life straightforwardly. But I was living my life sideways. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else. Grade felt peripheral, but the real problem was, everything felt peripheral.'
-Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld