There's Only One Thing To

So You Didn’t Tell Me It Was A Messed-up Idea To Keep This All A Secret Because. . .” “because Experience Is The Only Teacher,” Hey-soos Says. “even If I Could Have Told You, It Would Have Been A Lecture. Why Do You Think Kids Don’t Listen To Their Parents, Or People Don’t Leave Churches And Do What The Preacher Tells Them? There’s Only One Thing That’s Universal.” “what’s That?” “the Truth.

And I Think If You're Going To Be With Somebody, You Owe It To Them To Show Yourself.

A Sport Has Its Own Built-in Integrity, Doesn't Need An Artificial One. Athletics Carries Its Own Set Of Truths, And Those Truths Are Diminished And Manipulated By People With Agendas.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

We Get Crazy When We Can't Make Things Be Like The World Tells Us They Are". She Looked Back Out The Window. "it Was That Way For Me And Your Brother, I Think. I Mean, How Could I Have Loved Him That Last Year? I Didn't Even Know Who He Was. He Was Way More Attracted To Drugs And Bikers And That Whole Lifestyle Than He Was To Me. But Somebody Told Me That If You Really Loved Somebody,you Stayed With Him No Matter What. You Had To Fight For Him." She Laughe. "hell, I Was Convinced.