“This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.”

“...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.”

“Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”

“If you draw a circle, there will always be an inside and an outside, and unless you're a total nut job, it's pretty easy to see which is which. It just happens.”

“It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”

“I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

“I’ve always hated being looked at.”