Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.