“Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.”

“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. ”

“Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.”

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

“To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

“It's just such a big commitment," Brandy says, "being a girl, you know. Forever."Taking the hormones. For the rest of her life. The pills, the patches, the injections, for the rest of her life. And what if there wassomeone, just one person who would love her, who could make her life happy, just the way she was, without the hormones and make-up and the clothes and shoes and surgery? She has to at least look around the world a little.”

“I won­der if run­ning is just an­oth­er fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a prob­lem I can’t re­mem­ber.”