Another two lines that I am really interested in are from pages 55 and 98.
"It took a few weeks before it wasn't just May Day on the radio. Then some of the normal programmes came back but even the normal programmes weren't normal anymore" (Cleave 55).
Much of the research I have done about post-9/11 culture mentions the disruption to our television programming in the days following the attacks. In class, we have discussed movies that were postponed &c., but popular fictional television show (such as "The West Wing") also aired episodes dealing with the event somehow. "The West Wing" aired an episode written quickly after 9/11 where students visit the White House and receive a lesson on U.S./Middle East relations. I think that Cleave's text does a great job of portraying, not only television shows, but a country, and then just a person, that simply cannot go back to "normal".
"I wish I could put the whole world in alphabetical order Osama there would be Deserts and Forests and Oceans between you and my boy" (Cleave 98).
I think this quote parallels the idea of a "surprise attack". After 9/11, there was an obsession with order -- we want to be able to categorize everything -- people, most especially. This idea that organization implies a physical and spatial distance between people and things is very intriguing. And I also thought it was a really beautiful line.