I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.