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“That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
I want us both to be grown-ups, so that when we do something like this, we both get to be kids.”
we all experience, especially as we get older: that sense of momentous things coming just after we’re already gone. Existential FOMO.
“We’re at the start of something here. We can’t let it slide. If it’s okay now, it’s okay forever. You plug a leak when it’s small, or you suffer when it’s big.”
“What if we just go on like people always have? The same bullshit. Give the same bullies and liars power like we did before. Cut all the same corners. Put up with all the same hypocrites. Make everything here into more of the shit that got us here. That seems worse. For me? That’s worse.”
“I’ve known men like Jandro. He showed you what he was. He showed all of us what he was. And he got away with it. There’s no law with a man like that. The town voted, but he was more important. And you bent. You failed. You let him do what he wanted, and there was never going to be a path back for him. When someone like that wins? He’d never stop pushing.”
than the fact that she did. Doing the right thing has to be enough in itself. It’s not about getting the pat on the head.
