Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

by Matthew Quick

Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being.

Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.”

You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything?

“People should be nice to you, Leonard. You’re a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

sadistic assholes like Asher Beal.

foreshadowing or hint

It was like once again someone was labeling me and putting me in a box just as soon I expressed myself.

Maybe if we would just picture our enemies jerking off once in a while, the world would be a better place.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

He was trying to make us think about how life is hard and people suffer in all sorts of ways without our adding to their suffering to satisfy our sense of vengeance,

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

And how stories and objects and people and pretty much everything can blink out of existence at any time.