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one day Lucas’s doorbell rings, and nothing good ever starts that way.
Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.
Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.
They look the way small children do when they first learn that fried chicken comes from actual chickens.
angry as a Santa Claus who has just been told by a child that he doesn’t exist.
“I usually keep my peanuts next to a jar of peanut butter, so they understand what I’m capable of!”
Lucas sighs the way you do when you’re just starting to realize that you’ll probably never, ever get to finish your video game.
“I’m . . . no expert. But I think most people who want to be happy try to add things to their lives. But really what maybe they should be doing is taking something away.”
Love isn’t powerful enough. But spite? Spite can change the world.
Lucas is happy. It’s not as hard as one might think to become, the hard part is just to keep being it. It’s hard because it’s so easy to get in your head that if you are to be happy, you have to be happy exactly all of the time. And who in the world has the energy for that? Happiness can be exhausting. Honestly, it’s most often enough to just not be the opposite.
