″‘If it makes you feel any better,’ his mother said, ‘Teddy Roosevelt had the same problem. I saw it on television. Boys used to pick on him and chase him.’
‘No, it doesn’t,’ he said.”
″‘Some boys are going to kill me.’
‘Not kill you, Benjie,’ she said. ‘No one is-’
He glanced quickly at her. ‘Well, how do I know what they’re going to do?‘”