You Don't Have a Shot

but she knows what it feels like to look at someone you love and see a clock ticking down, and that’s more than most people understand.

“It scared me, that because of her I felt my heartbeat for the first time.”

She’s not an asshole like that.”

“I’m not here to deny anyone’s realities.” Kiko purses her lips. “But even if she isn’t, the people she chooses to hang out with are, so is there really a difference?”

But instead, as the adrenaline of our goal dissipates, I’m left terrified. Because starting to win means you finally have something to lose.

There’s her smile again. I feel warmer, like the rain is miles away. “But I don’t think making a shitty mistake makes you a bad person.”

“Something can be everything to you and still not make you happy.”

prove you don’t have to win by margins but by miles.

My dad once told me hope is for people who aren’t prepared enough to guarantee their successes.

Figure out whether you’re willing to keep losing yourself in the pursuit of winning.

may be fuckups right now, late and smelly and in trouble, but we’re transitioning into who we are on the field: a force to be reckoned with.