“I think maybe I know why,' she finally said.'Why?''Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.”

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”

“My sister thought about it for a few moments. "Well, that's boring," she said finally. "Why can't you read porn of something fun that I could borrow?"I laughed. "Maybe later.”

“I don't know why I said what I did. Maybe I wanted Hannah to remember something, or maybe I wanted to test her, but when she asked me my name I didn't even pause. "My name is Aidan," I said. "It means fire.”

“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”

“Yes!” she said raising her arms in the air. “Finally! I get to meet the invisible man!”“He’s not invisible,” I said sitting on the edge of her desk.“Oh please,” she said. “I’ve never seen him. Except maybe in a magazine advertising crazy people, or maybe it was rich people? I get the two mixed up.”Lyndi and Sloane”