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1 " This is an awful thing that’s happened to you, but it’s also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. "
― , Restart
2 " Yeah, Rubio,” snorts Bear. “If I had a face like yours, I’d appreciate anyone who could make me look good. So shut up. "
3 " It’s taco night at Portland Street. "
4 " zits. "
5 " They agreed it was wrong to throw the stick, but insisted that Chase couldn’t have predicted it would result in serious injury. Ha! The real reason was that Chase was the town sports hero—and the son of the last town sports hero. Chase’s dad had a lot of admirers on that board. And my family didn’t. "
6 " I burst out with, “Aaron—Bear—” The names are unfamiliar on my tongue, like I’ve never spoken them before. "
7 " But a dead man doesn’t care what uniform he’s wearing. "
8 " If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. "
9 " I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim. "
10 " What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else? "
11 " As I run, hot tears of shame are streaming down my face. Since my accident, I've heard a lot about the person I used to be. Never did I imagine this.I sprint harder, accelerating onto the sidewalk, outpacing even the most intense drills from practice. It's no problem escaping Aaron and Bear.But I'll never be able to get away from myself. "
12 " And how much do I care about hurting their delicate feelings? Well, you could fit that inside the nucleus of a carbon atom. "
13 " stranger stares back at me. "
14 " My dad always uses this expression: "If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. "
15 " Maybe it’s simpler than that: If the biggest jerks form a club, everything starts to fall apart when one of them isn’t quite so jerky anymore. "
16 " And now I’m supposed to believe that the leader of the three, Alpha Rat, is a good guy because he fell on his head. "
17 " What a difference a few months make. Back then I had such a high opinion of the great Chase Ambrose that I considered myself untouchable. Now it's the opposite. I hate myself so much that there's no way any judge could hate me more. "
18 " Actually, Chase is recalling more and more these days. He's still got a long way to go before his amnesia is totally cured. But every now and then, I'll see him in the school halls, gray in the face and haunted, and I know he's just remembered some horrible thing he did in his former life. Poor guy. "
19 " This is an awful thing that’s happened to you, but it’s also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. Don’t "
20 " Football.Here's a surprise: I like it. That means everything didn't change when I fell on my head. It proves that you can be an athlete and a video club kid at the same time. Not in my case, obviously. Video club invited me to get lost. But it's possible to be both. I have no idea why more people don't do it. Maybe it's because the jocks will never find out if they enjoy doing something artsy because they'll never try it. And the arts kids feel the same way about sports. "