“Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison."It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.”

“Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said."Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.”

“It's an incredible sadness," he said. He was quiet for a few moments before he spoke again. "It's an incredible sadness," he repeated, "but it wasn't for nothing.”

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

“Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.”

“She's small, Valiant. You should ease up some on the sex."Tammy and Valiant both shot him a glare. "Never," they said in unison.”