“It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.”
“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”
“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”
“This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.”
“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)”
“My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.”