"'No one understands. Everyone takes a piece of you, then there's nothing left for you. Even the meds take a piece of you. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about here?'" (Chapter 1, p. 15)

"Theo looked at her. 'I have such a mind-numbing fear of the future that the only way I can function at all is with equal amounts of denial and drugs.'" (Chapter 1, p. 15)

"There it was. In the past, that would have been the answer. Increase the Prozac to eighty milligrams, about four times the dose for the average depressed patient, and let the side effect of reduced libido do the work." (Chapter 10, p. 88)

"The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next...