Page 17: "I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I had incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I want the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it."
Page 29: "I'll keep at it and hope it gets better."
Page 38: "...always looking for new ways to fix me."
Page 41: "I'm doing experiments with my mind, to see how it got the way it is."
Page 44: "I should be finding what I love about this world."
Page 45: "I have to concentrate on myself."
Page 86: "I could do anything, anywhere, in all four directions."
Page 87: "I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here."
Page 99: "I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time."
Page 101: "But I just started freaking out and feeling worse and worse."
Page 103: "I thought like it would be good to have a reset switch, like on the video games, to start again and see if you could go a different way."
Page 105: "The Cycling... Going over the same thoughts over and over. When my thoughts race against each other in a circle... just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think 'I'm not going to be able to do that' and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up."
Page 106: "I used to always be up doing something, but once the Cycling starts I can waste hours... I have to go to sleep because no matter what I do, I have to be at school the next day. I can't let them know what's happening to me."
Page 107: "...I have to start shaping up now, but I can't because of this crap that's going on in my head."
Page 110: "'How'd you fix it?'... 'Same way you will. On my own.'"
Page 115: "I use my time how I want, so I rule it."
Page 121: "...that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person..."
Page 135: "Over and over again, a cycling of tasks, of failures, of problems."
Page 239: "When you think you've beaten it, but you haven't." "Life not cured.... Life is managed."
**NOT DONE**
