“Go away common sense, you don't live here anymore, hadn't you heard?”

“Did somebody whisper something? I look left then right. Uh oh. I think I'm hearing voices now. Not, I AM hearing voices I THINK I'm hearing voices. Okay not voices, just a voice. Is thinking you heard it better or worse than knowning you heard it? Does the distinction matter?”

“I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are.”

“Gods, to fall for someone so hard surely you were bound to break apart. Unravel at the seams because you are undone by how they make you feel.”

“Every day I like what and who I am less and less,” he whispered more quietly than before,“because I know you wish for a different life. And I cannot give it to you.”

“Don't talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule?”

“Oh, Lee, how deep into the rabbit hole you have fallen. You're worse than Alice.”