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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
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.
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.
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
If you were to ask Filip’s mom why she doesn’t protest, 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.
“That’s the thing about hockey. When you go into a rink. All those sounds you only recognize if you play. And . . . that feeling when you walk from the locker room to the rink, that last inch when the floor turns to ice.
The moment when you glide out . . . you have wings then.” The boys say nothing for a while.
