Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.