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1 " Even though Clover City feels like one big joke sometimes, it's my joke. My charming joke of a town that thrives on beauty pageants and dance teams and a football team that couldn't figure out how to win a game if the other team had forfeited, but underneath it all, it's more than that small-town stereotype. It's a shithole. But it's my little shithole. "
― Julie Murphy
2 " you don't always have to win a pageant to wear a crown "
3 " You think you know a place,” he says. “You think you’ve got it all figured out, but it’s like with camerawork. You just adjust your position, “Cameron and the other guys take their smoke breaks up here,” he explains.The two of us sit down, and for a few minutes we just live here in this moment without a word between us.Finally I break the silence. “How is it I’ve lived here all my life and I’m just now seeing this view of Clover City?”A soft smile plays at Malik’s lips. “You think you know a place,” he says. “You think you’ve got it all figured out, but it’s like with camerawork. You just adjust your position, even slightly, and suddenly you’re telling a different story. Seeing a new world. "
4 " Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world. "
