Arrêt. The term meant stop... putting an end to any fencing bout... Harvard always said it, never seemed to feel embarrassed about his ready surrender. He would always surrender rather than risk hurting Aiden.
“Marie Antoinette didn’t actually say ‘Let them eat cake’ about the starving peasants,” Harvard said conscientiously. “That was just something people said to feel okay about cutting off her head. You can’t trust surface reports of history.”... “Can’t trust much in this life,” drawled Aiden.
He carried his bear back to the desk with him, and typed: On my first day of school, I met my best friend, Harvard.... Simple as that, the first true thing Aiden had written.
"He’s a diamond who puts himself under too much pressure... like he believes he’s still coal ”
““Diamonds aren’t actually created from coal... Some diamonds... are created by asteroid strikes,”