You can't just skip the boring parts."" Of course I can skip the boring parts."" How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?"" I can tell."" Then you can't say you've read the whole play."" I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.""Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. Gary D. Schmidt
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"You can't just skip the boring parts." means that you can't just skip over the boring parts of a piece of writing. If you don't read them, then you haven't read the play or novel or whatever it is that you are reading. "Of course I can skip the boring parts" means that you think that you can skip over the boring parts and still get a complete and full understanding of what's going on in the piece that you're reading. "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" means that they're boring because nobody reads them, so they're boring.

"I can tell" means that you know what is boring and what isn't. You would know it's not boring because your reading of it shows that it isn't. "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," means that Meryl Lee thinks she'll be able to live a happy life even if she doesn't read the play or novel or whatever it is that she's reading.

Source: The Wednesday Wars

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