“This is not a test. Listen closely. This is not a test."But I think she's wrong. I think this is a test.It has to be.”

“It occurs to me to devise mental tests on myself to see if I am who I think I am, but then I think, “I am who I think I am, or I probably am, and a test I conceive and answer about myself isn’t a way to test if I’m another person pretending to be me, because no matter how I answer I’ll answer like myself, thus falsely proving to myself that I am who I think I am.” No, what I need is for my clone to create and administer the test.”

“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.”

“What about Josh?” I think there’s more to that question than she’s letting on but she’s testing the waters. Salvation, I write. She looks at the word and nods. And for a minute she looks as sad as I feel. “That fits, I think.”

“Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.”

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”