"It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
~ John Green (author) ~












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