More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
In Seiji’s experience, he reported the basic facts, and people became angry with him and called him arrogant. Then they disliked him for simply telling the truth. Was he meant to lie to get them to like him? Seiji didn’t intend to do that.
This.
Nicholas and Eugene went down a broad main street flanked by white and black buildings that practically screamed We’re so fancy we pretend we live in a chess game.
“I’ve lost matches.” Harvard gave Nicholas a little smile. “I’ve lost more than that. Everybody loses. Sometimes you lose more than you knew you had.”
Why did nobody ever tell Seiji the rules of social behavior? He’d been taught the rules for fencing, and he excelled in that. He didn’t see why everybody expected him to excel in life with no training.
RELATE.
It appeared Nicholas really had decided words had no meaning anymore. Life would be so confusing from now
The things neurotypical people do that drive me nuts...
Maybe deciding other people didn’t matter always ended with someone hurt.
He had good feelings about the ground when they were together, but he became deeply uncomfortable when he and the ground were apart.
I'm not afraid of heights, I'm just in a deeply committed relationship with the ground.
The time you learn if someone’s a loser,” said Harvard, “is when you see how they lose.”
“Why should the rules not apply to some students? People shouldn’t use their privileges in order to escape punishment.” Apparently, Seiji had been too preoccupied with fencing to notice all the rules of the society he lived in up until now.
“I don’t know what lexicon means,” Nicholas informed him. “Nobody knows lexicon means. Why would you use that word?”
I see what you did there, Sarah
