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Her mom loves a man who loves a place that loves a game.
One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it’s too late to put right.
The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
You can’t look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness.
A great deal is expected of anyone who’s been given a lot.
The twentysomething men at the Bearskin have become the most conservative people in town: they don’t want a modern Beartown, because they know that a modern Beartown won’t want them.
Good intentions don’t count.
Because cherry trees always smell of cherry trees, whereas money smells of nothing.
Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots.
“Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.”
but sometimes even he has trouble working out who the worst hooligans in the Beartown Ice Hockey Club are: the ones with tattoos on their necks, or the ones with neckties.
That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time.
Violence is like whisky: children in homes that have too much of it grow up either full of it, or entirely without it.
And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.
An entrepreneur who isn’t moving isn’t actually standing still, he’s going backward.
But this is their way of showing that some people in this town can actually carry more than one thought in their head at the same time. That you can want to punch a man in the face but still refuse to let anyone hurt his children.
