Last night, on the train back from London, I finished Jon McGregor’s ‘If nobody speaks of remarkable things’. And, at the risk of sounding like Think Small, I decided to quote something from it:
He waits, and he says this kid, when it’s born, you mustn’t ever let it think it’s anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?
It is not what the book is really about, and it is not even the thing that struck me the most about it — but it is the the thing that struck me the most, on so many levels.
what levels? how many?
I think there are some kids, or at least some teenagers and youths around here, who could do with thinking of themselves as less of a gift and a blessing. certainly their behaviour is not always much of a blessing to the rest of the community.
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