“So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth.Right, like the two are the same thing.”

“I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.”

“It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn’t. It’s what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.”

“Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone”

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

“I didn't throw the paper away.Maybe I should have.Oh, the things you know in retrospect.”

“It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only without all the fuss and blood.”