"Shush. Don't struggle. It will all be over soon. I'm not your foe. If anything I'm your best friend right now." -- We're one of the oldest professions. Hired killers paid to eliminate people shaped "problems" by amoral people. It's a necessary evil;...
My favorite thing about the John Wick movies is how all the background characters seem just completely unconcerned with everything going on around them. Nobody ever like tries to call the cops or anything. This must happen all the time.
You know the old saying, ‘those thrown in pits will build ladders.’ For years, I believed that whoever wrote that never climbed a day in their life. After all, what pit has the material–the wood, the nails, the hammers–needed to build a ladder? Who, tossed aside by the more powerful, could find the will to build handholds and rungs from nothing at all? How does anyone, I wondered, escape the depth? But I realized something I had not considered. The powerful are frugal and it is costly to dig a new pit for each person you wish to bury. The weak, the downtrodden, the dismissed, the disfigured, the doomed. We are all neighbors. And we are too, the wood, the nails, the hammers, needed to build ladders.
Austin Walker, Spring in Hieron