How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Her held breath starts to burn her lungs. Just another second of peace, she thinks. Just one more. (5.51)
Sometimes isolation means peace and quiet. Lyda submerges herself underwater here, which is a literal isolation of her and the world.
Quote #5
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not a bad thing. (9.23)
In the long run, we're all alone. We can be fused, or married, or connected, but we're still individuals who make our own decisions. And like Lyda says, that's not a bad thing.
Quote #6
"I just knew in that moment that I was a girl in a dome shaking a dome with a girl in it."
"That's the way I always felt at the zoo. A boy in a cage staring at animals in cages." (14.14)
The Dome isolates its people from the rest of the world. They're all just animals in a zoo, or like figurines in a snow-globe.