Runner Quotes by Theme by Lucy Leadbetter

lucyleadbetter3 — 2025-05-06 23:48:46 UTC

"To be poor was to be cold" (p. 2).

"I wanted something more than that."

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Besides the long pants of adulthood, I was expected to wear a dress as well

2025-05-06 23:57:07 UTC

“man of the house”

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I'll not have any son of mine keeping company with criminals. Page 26

jake and jax crime

2025-05-06 23:57:56 UTC

when squizzy tells charlie to get his money and squizzy says if they don't give the money it is going to be some knuckles in the face

"True, it was the warmth I sought each night I headed out. But soon there was something more."

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That night i turned 16"

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I was no stranger to the cold, but neither were we friends. It paid little to be on speaking terms with such a monster, for I’d seen what it could do firsthand as my father lay in bed, coughing blood until he died.”

"That night, i turned 16 years old"

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Vis

2025-05-07 00:07:30 UTC

'Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings'🦁

2025-05-07 00:09:33 UTC

He had given me his boots as I sat for the last time on his bed and listened to the wheeze and crackle in his chest. (pg. 4)

"I'm only sixteen, Mr. Redmond, I answered. I don't Think I'm ready ta be the man a the 'ouse, Just yet."

78586_1 — 2025-05-07 00:09:41 UTC

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"Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing,"

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"I know its a lot ta ask a someone so young, but yer ma'll be needin' ya ta be strong."

78586_1 — 2025-05-07 00:12:25 UTC

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That was what the poor craved most in the winter months, but without money we seldom found it

'whenever doing crime never get caught'

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I ran during the day and I ran at night. In fact, I ran so much that I didn't bother changing into my fathers old boots anymore. Ma and I both had our secrets now.

2025-05-07 00:16:50 UTC

True, I had been wearing my father's boots for some months now. Wearing them was easy. But filling them, that was a different story. (Chapter 10)

2025-05-07 00:18:35 UTC

"standing above him i suddenly felt quite calm" ( page. 71 )

It will give us a chance to earn big money and not stay in poverty

79012_11 — 2025-05-07 00:18:49 UTC

the poor live in the cold but can live without food so agnoledge them

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Even in death, the poor were denied the luxury of grieving.

2025-05-07 00:20:46 UTC

It will give us a chance to earn big money and not stay in poverty

new

2025-07-04 02:13:35 UTC

faNtastic