Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
Stephen ChboskyAnd we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didnโt do or what they didnโt know. I donโt know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.
Stephen ChboskySo, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
Stephen ChboskyI think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.
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