"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.

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.
~ John Green (author) ~












We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. ...
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