This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

“. . . Liesl ”

“It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”

“i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and …”

“I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her under…”