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“I felt like a cruel child’s game that played on a human’s most atavistic fear: the monster was coming, and everyone but you knew its name. You were the scapegoat” (87).

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“My life wasn’t mine anymore anyway, it was the disease’s” (100).

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“There is always someone bigger, faster, better armed than you.  Learn what you can then improvise” (80) - strength because this realization empowers her to continue fighting

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"Where would I like the first injection to go?" (38)

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"'She got baggage to check?' She. As though I were not there"(82).

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"More research. More rage. And I began to see a pattern"(61).

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" I saw the date and realized it was the start of softball. I miss those games. I wish I could be out there with you." (112)

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"I could imagine how I might look: the eye-like-burnt-holes-in-a-paper-bag shock I had seen every day when I first became an HIV and AIDS counselor. From now on you are different. Diagnosis as death sentence. Doctor as priest" (9).

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"The understanding that filled the twenty-two-year-old me with rage. I turned that rage into a goad; learned to fight, to smash wood with my hands, stronger. Learned to not be afraid; to break their narrative" (45)

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"Liang doubled my dose of Rebif. I had severe reactions to the increased dose:" (91)

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"I sent out an invite for CAT's task force-I'd become allergic to the term "Excutive Committee"- to conference on WebEx"(77)

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"We [cripples/the CAT] don't need pity. Empathy, yes. Help, yes. Pity, never... Crips are more than twenty percent of all voters. We're a powerful bloc" (65-66).

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"We need time and attention. We don't need pity. Empathy, yes. Pity, never."(65)

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"that night in the bar, I understood on a visceral level what I had only known a statistic: that women's fear was marketable commodity. Fear sells" (45).

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"I had been in a chair before, of course, when I was first training as a counselor. To see how it felt. Then, I could get up anytime and call a halt. This was different. This was as though the chair had turned me invisible, written me out of the story. I began to understand why all those people at the AMSS group were so defeated" (84)

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"I set up Cripples Action Team. CAT was a great acronym. Fast, powerful, ruthless, and in-your-face uncompromising(65).

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"I walked out the steps onto the grass; sometimes when I was not looking it had turned from straw yellow to fresh minty green and there were weeds. was that new or something Rose took care of?"

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"We. There was no we when it came to pain" (99)

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"'I was let go. For being sick.'

"Cancer, I could see her tink. Cancer was what everyone though. 'That's awful. Isn't it, Josh?'

"'Totally lame,' he said.

"'For being a cripple,' I said" (48).

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"' No. Im sick of it all.'" (99)

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"And I didn't know how to tell her, how to open my mouth and say; I am sick and possessed by disease and this thief is stealing my life" (43)