18 quotes found
“Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.”
“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”
“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
“For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.”
“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
“You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.”
“The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.”
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.”
“The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.”
“The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their sig...”
“Just because you dont like peanut butter doesnt necessarily mean you cant like . . . peanuts.”
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil....”
“I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. T...”
“It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screa...”
“Shes fifteen, above the age of consent, and hes seventeen, but hes still the boy in every conversation. Shes the young woman.Words are not small things.”
“She is told all the things she shouldnt have done: She shouldnt have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldnt have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldnt have showered. ...”
“Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.”
