Radio Silence

Every time I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything anymore.

There’s magic under our feet, not just in our eyes.

I had a reputation for being organized, always doing homework, having consistently high grades, and having Cambridge University ambitions. My teachers loved me and my peers envied me.

you may be very small but you are all very important in the universe.

“But now … I’m just … when you get to this age, you realise that you’re not anyone special after all.”

On the first of November, I turned eighteen. I expected to feel different but, of course, I didn’t. I don’t think age has much to do with adulthood

it didn’t even matter what we did together, because we knew that if we were both there, we would have a good time

I think I’ve always … [Always what? Always been lying to yourself about this? Always believed that you were passionate about something you weren’t?]

Every time I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything any more

Everything’s very confused. Everything’s better under the stars, I suppose. If we get another life after we die, I’ll meet you there, old sport