Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.