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“Why don’t they tell kids that in school? That life is so hard.”

People enter our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.

Maybe because it upsets the balance. It makes you think and makes you mad. Challenges you. Gives you the illusion of permission for once to be on the outside who you really are on the inside all the time. It’s revolutionary, and so, in the hands of rebels, it creates action.

One of the more pleasant things about getting older is that you stop wanting to know everything.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that the adults in my life didn’t know any more than I did. But the sad truth was that they were no better than we were, and more often than not, they were much worse because they had been here on this planet longer than we had and therefore were able to collect more vices, worries, and sadness.”

No one gives up power without a long, bloody fight—one that usually involves foul play. Lonely people typically can’t stomach treachery, and that’s another problem. They tend to tell the truth and fight fair.

*mr.booker