Dec 4, 2015
But there are plentiful killing phrases, I was learning, words that sear a man and leave snakelike scars, I’d been an idiot not to realize it, and whether we’re perishing instantly or by inches, the results are the same. [..] And I have said I hate you to Valentine more times in my life than I have said to him Good morning. How my brother has managed to survive me for so long, God only knows.