How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I tell myself I must have gone temporarily insane: brain scramble, from running in the heat. (7.18)
Because Lena has been taught that love is crazy, she starts to equate the nervous fluttering in her stomach that she feels when she thinks about Alex with bonafide mental illness.
Quote #5
We must have looked completely crazy. [...] "You looked happy." (9.140, 9.142)
This is an interesting comparison. Lena thinks she looks crazy when, to an outside observer, she looks happy. Perhaps the time she spent with her so-called crazy mother, who often seemed happy, made her equate happiness with madness.
Quote #6
It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking. (10.18)
Yeah, the love/lust combo Lena feels toward Alex is totally making her crazy. It's a normal kind of crazy, but Lena doesn't take any kind of crazy lightly. Chill out, girl. It's just a crush. Right?