Words Worth Noting - September 13, 2022

“That is so weird about Jeremy wishing he’d never been born. I mean, we have no control over what kinda family we land in! You’re just….. there!’ ‘A newborn baby is totally innocent. Nothing is his fault! If the family you get is bizarre, that’s the way it is! You just gotta survive, that’s all.’ ‘But how do you do that, Becky? How are you supposed to know how to think an’ act an’ live?’ ‘Find someone you trust an’ respect… an’ try to be like them!’ ‘But a baby trusts everyone! That’s the problem… An’ a baby doesn’t even know what “respect” is!’ ‘No… But they know what security is… an’ they know what’s fair!’”

A conversation between three characters in “For Better or Worse” comic in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 6, 2004