I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity. - Kate Coyle

It’s not enough for the Believers to feel abandoned—they need to know they’ve been lied to. Otherwise someone down the line will try again.

This whole country," says my grandmother evenly, "supports a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism which posits that not understanding a phenomenon is just as valid as understanding one, and frankly I'm sick of it.

What Harp doesn’t understand is that I like my parents—current hiccups in sanity not withstanding.