Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

You see, we didn't know.

This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.