“Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.”
“But risk always looks different when you are beating he system than when you've been beaten”
“It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.”
“Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.”
“You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.”
“I'd been beaten before; I'd been humiliated; I'd been spit on and ostracized...all the things you should not have to know about when you are on the cusp of sixteen, but do because you're different.”