“I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me — and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.”

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

“If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”

“I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.”

“That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal.”

“I think it is more like a ghost
that has been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
something more like a feeling.”

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.”

“I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.”

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”