Boy21

“That’s just a story.”

“So are we—we’re stories too,” Russ says.

“What do you mean?”

“There’re probably people who wouldn’t think our lives are real either, if we wrote exactly what happened to us in a book.”

maybe I did figure out life through basketball—people care about you if you can help them win, and they don’t care about you if you can’t.

We really don’t get to understand why most of the time. It’s true.

Erin was and is beautiful enough to make even Bellmont tolerable

It’s like none of us really matter. Anyone could disappear and nothing would change too much. It’s like our lives don’t count.

Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break?

Sometimes I’m amazed by how easily she seems to accept me.

Her bellybutton is a beautiful mystery.

That’s one reason I love b-ball so much: for the opportunity to make Dad happy.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.