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Are we not safe just as we are?” she said. “I’m not sure that I know anymore.”
he knew from experience that if something bad was going to happen, it would happen regardless of how much you tried to avoid it. Bad things find you. They seek you out. No matter how you might try to ignore them or hide away, or walk in the opposite direction. They will discover you eventually. It’s only ever a question of time.
It was strange how the weeding made your mind feel quiet.
“The thing about weeds,” he said, “is that it’s very subjective.”
“It depends very much on whose point of view it is. What’s a weed to one person might be a beautiful flower to another. It depends very much on where they’re growing and whose eyes it is you’re seeing them through.”
“People tend to believe things just because everyone else does.”
“They don’t search for proof, they just search for approval from everyone else.”
Sometimes adults said things which made sense, even if you weren’t exactly s...
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You can’t just go marching into somebody else’s country and expect them to follow all your rules, you know.”
IRONY!!!
“He was probably the biggest goat of them all.” We stared up the road and watched Walter Bishop disappear into number
It’s the small decisions, the ones that slip themselves into your day unnoticed, the ones that wrap their weight in insignificance. These are the decisions that will bury you. She thinks
