“Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny de­tails of ev­ery day do­ing the same tasks over and over.”

“You re­al­ize that there’s no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body’s watch­ing.”

“Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.”

“Here in the bath­room with me are ra­zor blades. Here is io­dine to drink. Here are sleep­ing pills to swal­low. You have a choice. Live or die. Ev­ery breath is a choice. Ev­ery minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like clean­ing up af­ter a stranger ev­ery day. Wash­ing dish­es all day. Feed­ing a stranger’s chil­dren. Mow­ing a lawn. All day. Paint­ing hous­es. Year af­ter year.”

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”