A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

“If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soo…”

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you each lun…”

“MRI good... X-ray good... blood work good..."If everything's so good, what the …”

“He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.”