“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

“This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.”

“Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.”

“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]”

“If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.”

“What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?”

“Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.”