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"Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success; every goal I set myself, every recognition I craved made anything I actually did seem paltry by comparion, and wether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood. With Hanna things felt good for weeks–in spite of our fights, in spite of the fact that she pushed me away again and again, and again and again I crawled to her."
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. NYC: Vintage International. pg 67
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