Surfacing Foreignness Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

I had to concentrate in order to talk to him, the English words seemed imported, foreign; it was like trying to listen to two separate conversations, each interrupting the other. (18.14)

Toward the end of the novel, after the narrator's epiphany in the lake, she starts feeling foreign to basically everything human, drifting away from "civilized" things like language and more toward the animalistic.