Highlights

  • I never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget. (Location 77)
  • My parents didn’t hope we would follow their rules, they expected us to. A denied expectation hurts more than a denied hope, while a fulfilled hope makes us happier than a fulfilled expectation. Hope’s got a higher return on happiness and less debit on denial, it’s just not as measurable. My parents measured. (Location 261)
  • From that day on Mike was an equal to Dad and Dad treated him as such. Dad never challenged Mike again, physically, morally, or philosophically. They were best of friends. You see, rites of passage were a big deal to my dad, and if you were man enough to take him on, then you had to prove it. And Mike just did. (Location 405)