“I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.”

“I wish I was a kid again,because skinned knees are easierto fix then broken hearts.”

“There’s nothing easier to ‘acquire’ than a girl with a broken heart.”

“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

“I am the kind of broken they can't fix. I am no longer the same little girl they loved.”

“I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that they didn’t care to fix me. These crazy, wonderful people I met at Craneville didn’t fix me because they didn’t think I needed to be fixed. And it wasn’t because they were ‘crazy’…it was because they were the only people who knew that I could only face the world out there again as someone different. As someone who wasn’t perfect, who wasn’t normal, who didn’t have all the answers…someone who was somehow ‘fixed’ by being broken.”