“Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.”

“It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.”

“Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.”

“Liza made a sudden decision. "I'll be your friend," she announced. she had trouble speaking the words but was glad once she had spoken them. She did not really want to be friends with an enormous rat of questionable sanity, but it seemed the right thing to say.”

“Welcome to the resistance, Lena,' he whispers to me. 'I'll try to make this quick.”

“‎And still the sun rises and clouds mass and drift and people shop for groceries and toilets flush and blinds go up and down. That's when you realize that most of it - life, the relentless mechanism of existing - isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.”

“It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doingher own version of resisting.”