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This sport demands only one thing from you. Your all.
“Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit.”
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
The children’s hobbies aren’t only the children’s hobbies—the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They start to symbolize other things, compensating for or reinforcing the parents’ own failures.
“The puck doesn’t just glide, it bounces as well.” It’s unpredictable.
It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
He was once asked what the most important requirement was if you wanted to become a successful hockey coach. He replied: “Being able to drink really bad coffee.”
“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old.
All the time he was growing up, the only thing he wanted was for life to speed up, and now all he wants is for it to slow down.
She is told all the things she shouldn’t have done: She shouldn’t have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldn’t have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldn’t have showered. Shouldn’t have drunk alcohol. Shouldn’t have put herself in that situation. Shouldn’t have gone into the room, up the stairs, given him the impression. If only she hadn’t existed, then none of this would have happened, why didn’t she think of that?
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.
And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.
“Is that why you’re here? To talk about that? Sweet Jesus… you men. It’s never your fault, is it? When are you going to admit that it isn’t ‘hockey’ that raises these boys, it’s YOU LOT? In every time and every place, I’ve come across men who blame their own stupidity on crap they themselves have invented. ‘Religion causes wars,’ ‘guns kill people,’ it’s all the same old bullshit!” “I didn’t mea…,” Sune tries, but has to duck when she tries to slap him again. “Keep your trap shut when I’m talking! Fucking men! YOU’RE the problem! Religion doesn’t fight, guns don’t kill, and you need to be very
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“I don’t have any children, David. But do you want to hear my best advice about being a parent?” “Yes.” “ ‘I was wrong.’ Good words to know.”
