“Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?”

“Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.”

“Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.”

“Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.”

“Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged?Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise.History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.”

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”

“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.”