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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
"They don't kill you unless you light them," he said as mom arrived at the curb. "And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to it's killing."
He shook his head, just looking at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing," he said.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful."
There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when youre sixteen, and that
s having a kid who bites it from cancer.
Surely you know that there are only two emotions, Love and fear.
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet.
Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.