“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”

“Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .”

“Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.”

“Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.”

“I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.”