“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.” IfsWayWantGivingBelieveGuyTeamFieldsWillingBallsLaysTruestPutting Yourself Out There Author:Chris Crutcher
“...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.” IfsWayShouldSchoolCertainWishParentGrowing UpGrowingExpectationsAdults Author:Chris Crutcher
“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.” WayTruestPutting Yourself Out There Author:Chris Crutcher
“No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.” WayBeliefViewsEffortColorAmountPoint Of ViewPerceiveLinked Book:Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Source: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
“We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayYearsMeanMatterWholeLastsFightingHellCrazyBrotherDrugWindowNo Matter WhatConvincedWhole LifeLifestyleLast YearYour BrotherBikers Author:Chris Crutcher
“Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.” WayFeelsMeanEyeSchoolFeltVoiceClassHeardTalentCitizensEmbraceTreatedOne TimeOutsidersConsistentlySecond Class Citizens Author:Chris Crutcher
“I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.” WayHonestVisibleTeensPositively Author:Chris Crutcher
