There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedI will become her Gallowglass
Lauren Baratz-LogstedHe almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedBut I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedTag: logic-reason
I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedSo,” she says slowly, reviewing my case item by item, “you like ice holes, sinkholes, peepholes and blowholes?”
I nod.
“But not loopholes?”
I nod again.
Hole this, hole that – even when I’m determined not to just be myself, I’m such an asshole. I just can’t help it.
It was a curiously happy picture: a dark-haired girl...sternly cautioning her bare-kneed younger brother not to be so loud in church, then bending down to whisper with a mischievous smile, 'If you can only sit still for five more minutes, once we are out of here I will play a great game with you. You will enjoy it.' Flash of merry dark eyes. 'There will be worms involved.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedDoes not a child recognize her own mother?
Lauren Baratz-LogstedIt's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.
Lauren Baratz-LogstedTag: life
How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?
Lauren Baratz-LogstedTag: life life-s-inquiries
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