13 Quotes & Sayings By Aryn Kyle

Aryn Kyle was born in 1983 in Orange County, California. She is the author of the best-selling memoirs A Girl Named Digit (about digitizing her life) and How Did You Get So Smart? (about her intellectual disability). She has written for the New York Times, Time, and The Huffington Post, and has appeared on numerous television shows including National Geographic Explorer, The Today Show, Oprah's Where Are They Now?, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the Late Show with David Letterman. Aryn graduated from Yale University in 2007 with degrees in history and English Read more

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Ben.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to...
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Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything. Aryn Kyle
Marriage,
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Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere Aryn Kyle
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Kate's unhappiness was like weather, a storm rolling constantly toward or away from her, a force she could feel approaching like a hum of electrical current across her skin before it broke open, soaking her in sadness, and she would have no choice but to brace against the misery until it wore itself out on her and passed on to someone else. Aryn Kyle
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You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're worn out by the effort it takes to be with them, to feign interest in their stream of never-ending problems. Aryn Kyle
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We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business. Aryn Kyle
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At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. Aryn Kyle
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It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks. Aryn Kyle
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And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted. Aryn Kyle
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You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play. Aryn Kyle
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They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone. Aryn Kyle
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In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone. Aryn Kyle
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That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough. Aryn Kyle