- [Finny leaves the hearing after Leper explained everything what happened]
- Brinker: Wait a minute! We haven't heard everything yet! We haven't found out all the facts!
- Finny: [lividly] You get all the facts, Brinker! YOU GET EVERY FRIGGING FACT IN THE WORLD!
- [Finny storms out of the assembly hall until Gene goes horrified from the clattering sound of Finny's cane and the horrible sound of tumbling]
- Gene: FINNY!
- [Gene bolts out of the assembly hall and stops dead to see Finny lying at the bottom of the stairs unconscious breaking the same leg again]
- Leper: Army basic... so horrible! Dozens of guys, all in their underwear. They expect you to do what they say, whenever they say to do it. And they treat everyone the same! You can't... can't expect someone to survive... something like that. Not unless they're Snow White or something.
- [breaks down completely, gibbering and sobbing as they other boys look on in horror]