Katrice’s Reviews > Demon Copperhead > Status Update

The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person’s reckless mistake. Only after it’s a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice.

there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you’re on your own

A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it’s easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing. Assuming you’ve ended up someplace you’re proud to be. And if not, easier to forget the whole thing, period.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them

one good piece of luck that comes with the baggie birth: it’s this promise from God that you’ll never drown

Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.