Status Updates From Ordinary Human Failings

“In the end it was much easier than Tom had anticipated.
He had come prepared with all sorts of pretty speeches and logical arguments and even some veiled threats if it got really difficult.
He had forgotten how easy it is to offer something to people who had nothing.”

“There were the people that kept him from sleeping, when anybody did. Not the victims themselves…..
It was usually those like Miss Dillon who harboured private suspicions but who did not act boldly, did not voice their suspicions, and who would come to learn that, if they had, they could have spared somebody's suffering, or even their whole life.”

“A REMINDER! Reasonable excuses for lateness/ missing meetings/not doing something I told you to do etc, include: Bereavement (parent only). Serious illness (life-threatening, your own). Reasonable excuses do NOT INCLUDE ordinary human failings such as hangovers, broken hearts, etc etc etc.”