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There’s something very demoralizing about reading the line “Not having friends to eat with, he reads over lunch,” while you are, in fact, reading during lunch. This is just my personal preference, sally.

“The outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.” (195)

“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he’s trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.” (163)