“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Do you ever get this feeling where you just want to pull the skin from your face off?"
Silence for half a minute, then he replied,
"No, I actually love myself, thank you very much."
"I just --"
"And why would you ask that anyhow?"
She gave him the look of 'will you let me talk now?',
"You know, sometimes everything in life just seems so well fit together in the sense that everybody's fine. You seem to see clearly that everyone has their own niche and paths, and you don't really know how long that will be the case but you know that's how it is for the present. Everybody's fine but you. And you just keep it to yourself. Why? Because to be you is to change the current of someone else's destiny. You see how things are, and people seem to be happy, just fine. You don't need to go out there going about Feelings in a place where Feelings already knows himself."
"Well, um.."
"I mean, it's more like a waiting period."
"And you feel like pulling your face off because of it?"
"Yes."

~ The Creation of Mr. Lingers