Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.

But I've always been terrified of the future. Even back then, I couldn't stop thinking about what everyone else ignored so skillfully. We're all going to die. And bad things are waiting around every corner. But in the end...all of that anxiety...all that worrying about the future...it didn't change anything.

Life is a series of unique opportunities. It's our job to find the happiness in each one.

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

It's me. My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.

In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which. "By that logic you should settle for me." "Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.

It's not even the other kids, because fuck them. It's me. My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.