“Ants are driven by fear.”

“People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.”

“They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.”

“... si no es posible regresar a los sitios de los que has partido, no es porque los sitios cambien, sino porque cambias tú. Como ya no eres la misma persona, no puedes ver las cosas igual que antes.”

“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

“...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear”

“But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying.Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.”