“Maybe I’m just like a victim of robbery or rape or something…I don’t have a name for the thing that happened to me, but I don’t feel safe any more” 

The novel opens up with a first person voice who sets the scene following the traumatic loss of her arm to injury. Even though the format of the story is from the first person point of view, it doesn’t take long for a reader to notice the personal tone the narration is done in. Her recounting of the events surrounding the tragedy is shady to say the least. She is unable to coherently answer the police’s questions due to being under sedation along with only being concerned with the whereabouts of her love interest Kevin. Consequently as a result, the story is told in an emotionally driven context; allowing  a reader to either to determine her reliability  on their own. This specific quote takes place following her first time-travelling episode and she is obviously  shook. She has no way of even describing to Kevin what she has just experienced; who reveals she had only been gone for seconds rather than the minutes she is certain she had been absent for. Further reading reveals that her imediate thought afterwards is on the likelihood of the event reoccurring or maybe even continuing where it left off and the possibility of this happening at an inconvenient time. The presentation of this in the text clearly reveals her panic and vulnerabilty that can either persuade a reader to find her honest and credible or hysterical and unreliable.