Sep
8
“If you want your boomerang to come back, first you’ve got to throw it.”
“But. What if I want to keep my boomerang and not — lose it down a big dark hole?”
“The throwing and the coming back is the boomerang, stupid. Without that part, you’re just carrying a bent stick around.”
I smiled. “So who died and made you so wise?”
“Hmmm…” Thinking about it, she did a childish shrug. “Maybe God?”
I looked at her.
“What?”
“Wow.
“What?”
“Just — wow.”
“Fuck off.”