Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever. - Patrick Ness

And I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -

It just felt like she'd been born with a small flaw, right at the centre of herself, a flaw somehow too shameful to be shown to anyone else, so she'd spent her life building a carapace around it to keep it hidden. Inevitably, the carapace became her true self, a fact she could never quite see, a fact that might have offered relief. Because all she knew was the truth deep inside of her, the little something wrong no one else could ever, ever know. And if that wasn't the real her, then what was? At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing.

"Schooling ain't life."
"Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.