The Last Kid Left Quotes

“The books confirmed it for him, that he liked books. Or, he liked books like these books, serious books that didn’t take themselves too seriously. How come they never gave you this kind of shit in school? Which was exactly how he began to think about himself: an outsider, but with some kind of brain. And he decided he liked his mind, doing things with his mind. He’d never felt that way before. Maybe even took a small amount of pleasure in feeling smarter than all the jerks around town. Claymore surely had more idiots per acre than most places.”
― Rosecrans Baldwin, The Last Kid Left

“Three halves of a whole, which meant the math was probably wrong from the start.”
― Rosecrans Baldwin, The Last Kid Left

“To be a mother is a never-ending attempt at repossession.”
― Rosecrans Baldwin, The Last Kid Left