It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give. " (Lena, 194)
It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.