“The Goober looked frightened. He was one of those kids who always wanted to please everybody. The guy who never got the girl but worshipped her in secret while the big shot hero rode off in the sunset with her in the end.”

— Robert Cormier , book The Chocolate War

Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 32

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