“You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain yourself.”
“It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk.”
“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
“Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.”
“It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?”
“Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.”