The Knapsack problem can be described in the following way: you have a backpack with a given volume and a bunch of objects that you want to put there, each with a different volume.

from The knapsack problem

We leave the room and walk down a big corridor that resembles the one from my school where the classrooms are.

from Hallway

It was a boy called Peter who evidently felt as out of place as I did.

from X

"I hate this place," Alex said.

from Good company

Anna went immediately to Alex without ever paying attention to her friend, a gesture that felt theatrical and familiar.

from Fence

After walking through the woods for a couple of minutes I stopped seeing the facility and totally lost sense of where I was.

from Outside

While we were walking back to the facility, Alex and Catherine asked if I was OK to sleep sometimes in Anna and Catherine's room.

from What are we in for

I felt bad when I saw Anna's reaction, as I understood why she felt betrayed — she had opened to me with some of her most intimate secrets and I had given her nothing in return.

from What are we in for contd

Didn't *you* want to kill yourself at some point? And if yes, than what made you hesitant to do it? Your strong will to live? Or just simple fear?

from Back to the facility

...and criticizing someone for being immature is the worst type of criticism there is, as with it you are basically saying that they are not as huge of a critic as you (or that they have too much desire for happiness perhaps?)

from The sleepover

...no matter what choice did I make, would always be unsure about it, and I would always be looking forward to an opportunity to change it even for a second, not so much because I regretted the choice itself, but because I disliked *the fact that I have to make it*, the fact that I could only be at one place at one time, to be one person, leading one and only one life.

from The sleepover contd

Or perhaps both of us were lucky, because we were not numb for this weird sensation, and because we can probably perceive countless other similar phenomena that don't exist for other people. But then again, perhaps we were crazy for having minds that stop and start whenever they want and often drift in unwanted directions, beautiful but useless, like most of the thoughts that they produced.

from Us and them

Perhaps the distinction between the vanilla and the perverse was just an invention of the established. Perhaps it was there just to enable some people to obscure the choices that they are making and to make it seem like they are making no choice at all, that they did what they did just because that's the way it is done in principle.

from Sex

If Alex, was in a similar situation, he would drive directly to her town as, unlike me, he was pursuing a clear and obtainable goal, which is a prerequisite for achieving something, but also a way to *limit* what you can achieve.

from Cigarettes