Barry Lyga: "Seperti ini, "dia pernah menjelaskan kepada Connie.&...

"Seperti ini, "dia pernah menjelaskan kepada Connie." Jika seseorang memberimu satu mawar, kamu akan bahagia, kan? "" Oke, "dia melanjutkan," Sekarang bayangkan seseorang memberimu sepuluh ribu mawar. " "Itu keseluruhan bunga mawar," katanya. "Itu terlalu banyak." Terlalu banyak. Tapi lebih dari itu, itu membuat masing-masing individu naik kurang istimewa, kan? Sulit untuk memilih satu dan berkata, "Itu yang bagus." Dan itu membuat Anda ingin menyingkirkan mereka semua karena tidak ada yang tampak istimewa sekarang. "Connie menyipitkan matanya." Apakah Anda mengatakan ketika Anda di sekolah, Anda hanya ingin menyingkirkan semua orang?"

--- Barry Lyga

Versi Bahasa Inggris

It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?