It isn't fair the way memory twists up the things it shows you.

It’s strange how easy it was, once we tried, to just spend time being broken together.

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

It’s the way people look at you when they know you’re damaged, but don’t know how to react to knowing a thing like that.

Junie says that the worst thing about shame is the way it chains you down. The way it holds your mind hostage and won’t let you go, gnawing from the inside out, feeding on you like a parasite.