“Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170”

“Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.”

“No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.”

“A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.”

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”

“[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types:I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.”