You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.