Robert Cormier - The Chocolate War (1974)

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Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

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A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

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He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine — not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

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It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

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Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

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Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster—the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

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A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

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