“Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.”

“I need to have something to source my energy to and something to remove me from my own weird brain.”

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

“It feels great to not be standing behind a bunch of men, but to actually be standing in front of it as women with something that we made, something that we’re proud of and something that we put our blood, sweat and tears into.”

“A pig never forgets, Ryan. They actually are pretty smart, I think, pigs. They can play pong or something.”

“I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.”

“Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.”

“I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.”

“It didn’t feel, at that moment, like I was getting into something over my head. It never does, before you take the leap.”

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”