"Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling."

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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

— Matthew Quick