"Beartown" Quotes
A small town's tight-knit community is shaken to its core when a violent act threatens the future of its beloved hockey team.
fiction | 432 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You never have the sort of friends you have when you're fifteen ever again. Even when you're fifty. Even when you're dead.
Culture is as much about the things we don’t say as the things we do.
It’s a cruel thing to be lonely with people around you.
Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.
It isn’t life that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.
People will say anything to win an argument, but one never really knows what anyone is thinking.
Some people can only relate to the world through stories. Some only through facts. If you’re not careful, you’ll go through your whole life thinking the world is one way, only to discover it’s the other.
The truth is, people are good at heart.
Sometimes a community is judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
