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Draw your targets, aim your darts. I’m going to do well enough in this school that someday I’ll be the one with the authority, and then it won’t matter who likes me. What will matter is who I like.
Sometimes you have to commit to a fight even when you’re weak. You don’t wait till you know you’re tougher. You make yourself tougher by whatever means you can, and then you strike by surprise, you sneak up, you backstab, you blindside, you cheat, you lie, you do whatever it takes to make sure that you come out on top.
“Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear—their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.”
We get used to everything. We find hope in anything.”
“If only such sad people could remember: Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is still sweet. Let it go on.”
But they’ve learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives.
