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a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead, and pulled the trigger.
huh interesting op
work hard, take the knocks, don’t complain, keep your mouth shut, and show the bastards in the big cities where we’re from.
scared
If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.
“You can’t live in this town, Maya, you can only survive it.”
Hockey is never satisfied being part of your life, it wants to be all of it.
“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
Why does he care about hockey? Because his life will be silent without it.
“Some of you were born with talent, some weren’t. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you got nothing. But remember, when you’re out on the ice you’re all equals. And there’s one thing you need to know: desire always beats luck.”
He’s not fighting. He’s protecting the most important investment the town has ever seen.
He's just an investment ???? Thats how you call a seventeen-year-old boy????
organizations like to boast that they’re building a culture, but when it comes down to it everyone really only cares about one sort: the culture of winning.
When Kevin is top of the class in history tests, which he almost always is, and goes home and says he got forty-nine out of fifty questions right, his dad merely asks in an expressionless voice: “What did you get wrong?”
Asian kid relate to this one
He got lost and was five minutes late getting back to the car, and his dad had already left. Kevin had to walk all the way back to Beartown on his own in the dark.
Cruel
And throws up again.
Go hospital please
Because a hockey crowd knows no nuances, only heaven or hell.
“Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.”
It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
“See you next Sunday, then?” the bass player calls.
Benji and this bassist endgame please
The team, the guys, Kevin. They mean everything to him, so he is everything they want him to be. And that’s a terrible thing.
“Come on, for fuck’s sake! Stop playing hard to get! I can go downstairs and get whatever girl I want and fuck her instead!”
Then do it and let her go asshole
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.
So Ana has always been torn between the urge to scream as loud as she could, or not at all.
“Boys, how do you fit four gays on a chair at the same time? You turn it upside down!” Everyone laughed. Benji remembers glancing surreptitiously at David, and saw that he was laughing, too. It’s just as easy to be exclusive as it is to be inclusive, just as easy to create an Us as a Them. Benji has never been worried about being beaten up or hated if anyone finds out the truth about him; he’s been hated by every opposing team since he was a child. The only thing he’s scared of is that one day there will be jokes that his teammates and coach won’t tell when he’s in the room. The exclusivity of
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His jersey is sweatiest of all. Because when he no longer knows what anything in the world means, this is the only thing no one can take from him.
no one asks what the boy did; as soon as the girl starts to talk they interrupt her instead with questions about what she did.
she knew she would survive this. Even then she knew that her mom and dad wouldn’t. Parents don’t heal.
“People who think they’re good coaches never are.”
leadership is as much about what you don’t say as what you do say.
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
“We can’t get involved in this, Anki. It’s none of our business.”
Noooo protect her educate your son pls fuck this town is full of ignorance
they aren’t all evil. But they’re all silent. Because that’s easier.
If she hadn’t told the truth, Kevin would only have hurt her. But now he’s hurt everyone Maya loves too.
“MEN! It’s always fucking men!”
Because you know how much it hurts to have no power. So you won’t hurt them, even though you could. And that will make the world a better place.”
Because they’re not people to you, they’re just objects of value. And his value is far greater than hers!”
“When I was little, my dad used to hit me if I spilled my milk, Leo. That didn’t teach me not to spill things. It just made me scared of milk. Remember that.”
if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya’s word wasn’t enough.
