They are scared. They are jealous. We are pathetic. We are stars. We are unusual and tragic and alive. We are disadvantaged but young and viral. We walk the halls and the playground, we are taller, we radiate. We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent sunbursts from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows - a darkness that would devour anything not as strong as we.
—Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - the best book I’ve read in a long time
