Status Updates From Boy Swallows Universe

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‘Why do you need to be tested? Why don’t you just know that you’re a good kid? […]’

‘I’m not certain of that. I’ve thought some horrible things.[…]’

‘Thinking evil thoughts and doing evil deeds are two different things’

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‘Are you a good man, Slim?’

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‘I’m a good man’ Slim says, ‘But I’m a bad man too. And that’s like all men, […] the tricky part is learning how to be good all the time and bad none of the time. Some of us get it right. Most of us don’t.’

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“True love comes hard.
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Mum’s love came hard. There was pain in it, there was blood and screams and fist against plasterboard walls, because the worst thing Lyle ever did was get my mum on drugs, because the best thing Lyle ever did was get her off drugs, but he knows I know that the latter could never make up for the former. He got her off drugs in this room. This room of true love. This room of blood.”

“Slim says I have an adult mind in a child’s body. I’m only twelves years old but slim reckons I can take the hard stories. […] Slim says I can take the hard stories because the age of my body matters nothing compared to the age of my soul

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I listen and I remember what I listen to. A single tear rolled down my face (…).

‘Tears don’t go well inside’ he said.
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Truly fascinating.

I likeeeeee it. Depressing story told with a lot of humour and details and just inspring messages. The thing about noticing details, about doing ur time and really absorbing everything will stay. UGGH i hate how the mom continues to get used by bad men!! Right now i thought things would take a good turn, but they don’t 😡Something epic will pfc happen - it’s that kind of story, and then he will be journalistz