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“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
Why does anyone care about hockey? Because it tells stories.
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
People say she’s gone mad, because that’s what people who know nothing about loneliness call it.
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism.
she would say that you can love something without loving everything about it. You don’t have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.
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.
