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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
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"Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."

"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."

"But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it."

"I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else."

"I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me."

"I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to, to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games."
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