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Benji asked what they were interested in, Kevin replied: “Success.” They were ten years old
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
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.
People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.
She just wants sufficient time to make a big enough blanket.
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.
It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
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.
but to him a hockey club is what makes everyone in this town remember, once a week, all the things they have in common instead of what divides them. The club is proof that they can work together to become something greater. It teaches them to dream.
