• I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. pg 3
• There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. pg 16
• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. pg 18
• "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true. pg 32
• "...I had never been really happy again." pg 75
• It never occurred to me to say no. pg 96
• I thought, "This is what it is to be happy." pg 97
• "I'm so glad they're going to die." pg 99
• I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it. pg 128
• What did I think was wrong?

It made it sound as if nothing was really wrong, I only thought it was wrong. pg 130

• You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that. pg 146