“This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.”
“The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?”
“Things will get worse before they get better.”
“I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.”
“I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”
“Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better”