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“You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.”
“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”
“O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a mans mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom,...”
“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”
“Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.”
“Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give ...”
“I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I dont want to go through what youve been through to get there.”
“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”
“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”
“I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.”
