How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I don't even really know Alex, and there's an impassable divide between us, but the idea upsets me anyway. (10.33)
Lena is beating herself up for talking too much about herself to Alex. For someone who has never had a conversation with a member of the opposite sex, much less a relationship, she puts a lot of pressure on herself to be perfect. Take a chill pill, girl.
Quote #5
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. (11.10)
Lena is so filled with regrets that just the very concept of the past makes her depressed. No wonder she looks forward to the cure, and to forgetting.
Quote #6
"Why? It's not like you'll even /have/ a budget." I don't mean to sound bitter but there it is, the difference in our futures cutting between us again. (12.45)
Well, it's not so much the difference between their futures coming between Lena and Hana as much as Lena's attitude toward them. She's grown a little depressed with being a have-not. She wants everything that Hana has.