herman’s Reviews > A Little Life > Status Update

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„ … the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving-and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad-or good-it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well."

But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had grown to trust might someday betray him anyway, and that as disappointing as it might be, it was inevitable as well, and that life would keep pro- pelling him steadily forward, because for everyone who might fail him in some way, there was at least one person who never would.

It was Brother Peter, who taught him math, and was always reminding him of his good fortune, who told him he'd been found in a garbage can. "Inside a trash bag, stuffed with eggshells and old lettuce and spoiled spaghetti-and you," Brother Peter said. "In the alley behind the drugstore, you know the one,"

«He knew why, too, as much as he didn't want to admit it to himself: traditionally, men-adult men, which he didn't yet consider himself among-had been interested in him for one reason, and so he had learned to be frightened of them.»
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