Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves.
“But when people cannot understand something, when they can’t make sense of a thing, they always become fearful. People fear what they do not understand, you see?”
― The First Witch of Boston
― The First Witch of Boston
“It is best not to lie. For every lie you tell you shall have to tell three more to cover for it, and three for each of those, and soon enough you’ll be trapped in your own web of lies times three.”
― The First Witch of Boston
― The First Witch of Boston
“When I am gone, do not be weighed down by sadness. Be lifted by hope—the hope that we have always shared. Be rid of this life, be rid of every vestige of it—of me!”
― The First Witch of Boston
― The First Witch of Boston
“Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves.”
― Lock Every Door
― Lock Every Door
“She had said it was because they had been made for each other, intended from the time they ceased to be stars and took their first breaths in the world of the living.”
― The First Witch of Boston
― The First Witch of Boston
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