Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
J. V. Simms
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January 22 - March 16, 2025
She wasn’t crazy. She just wanted a police officer to fatally wound her while she slashed away at him a few times, that was all.
Weren’t the police supposed to be bad at their jobs? Was this because her school was in a nicer neighborhood? Or was it because there were cameras everywhere, and they didn’t want to look bad? Kerri certainly hoped it wasn’t because of her ethnicity. Wouldn’t refusing to shoot her because she was white be like reverse racism or something?
“Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world! No brakes on this crazy train! Do I even lift, bro?!”
That was the trap of society, wasn’t it? People would set up their arbitrary rules, which they made up as they went along, all so they could treat others poorly and berate them for not understanding what they’d done wrong or for daring to follow their own ambitions.
your own life and make your own mistakes.
Freedom to fail. That was what everyone deserved.

