Beartown

Maybe the board and the sponsors are right—maybe he’s just a stubborn old goat who’s lost his grip.

There are people who say that children don’t behave the way adults tell them to, but the way they see adults behave.

but perhaps you get tired of being frightened if you’ve been frightened long enough.

You can get through anything then

but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a best friend.

hat most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”

at the part of the brain that registers physical pain is the same part that registers jealousy.

Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead, and pulled the trigger.

On the biggest day of his life he is the loneliest boy on earth.

A long marriage is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that most people in one sometimes ask themselves: “Am I still married because I’m in love, or just because I can’t be bothered to let anyone else get to know me this well again?”