“Don’t take it to heart,” he said, his voice level and serious. “The names people will call you: monster, freak of nature, brute. Don’t believe them. Just because they say it, it doesn’t make it true. It is what you think of yourself that determines your fate,” he said.”

“Don’t take it to heart,” he said, his voice level and serious. “The names people will call you: monster, freak of nature, brute. Don’t believe them. Just because they say it, it doesn’t make it true. It is what you think of yourself that determines your fate,” he said.”

— K.M. Shea