# Quote — Libba Bray, Going Bovine

> People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.

- Author: [Libba Bray](https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray.md)
- Book: [Going Bovine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray/going-bovine.md)
- Page: 178
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Libba_Bray#Going_Bovine_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray/going-bovine/people-always-think

## More from this book

> These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

p. 428 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray/going-bovine/these-are-hard.md)

> In our travels, we have come across many equations — math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

p. 428 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray/going-bovine/in-our-travels.md)

> You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/libba-bray/going-bovine/youve-been-assigned.md)