The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater

or any of a hundred other reasons that made not going to class seem like a better choice than going. Only once you stopped going it just seemed too hard to start again. Days rolled into weeks. Weeks into months. And then at some point you realized you’d entered the future. The one you never planned on. The one where everything was going to be that much harder.

Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

“Forgive, but don’t forget,” Jasmine liked to say. But now Richard told her to stop saying that. “To forgive, you have to forget,” he counseled. “Because otherwise you haven’t truly forgiven.”