Entry 31: It's Kind of a Funny Story

"So you want to quit school?" Dad brings us back to the real-deal stuff
"I don't want to quit." I turn to him "I want to transfer."
"But that means quitting the school you're currently at-"
"He can't handle the other school!" Sarah says.  "Look at-"
"Hold on a second. I can talk," I say.  "Guys." I look at all three of them in turn. "One thing that they do in here is give you a lot of time to think...If I don't make some kind of big change, I'm going to come out of here wondering how anything is different from before, and I'm going to end up right back here."

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The first line in the first chapter of this novel is, "It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself."  Now the book is coming to an end.  Craig's last night in the hospital is about to start and his family has come for their last visit.  They seem to spend a lot of the novel discussing craig as if he isn't in the room or speculating the cause of his illness in vapid terms.  I really loved the moment where Craig interrupted to say, "I can talk." Craig had to learn how to speak for himself to survive.