Whatever doesn’t kill me only serves to gradually injure me, whether physically or emotionally, sapping me of the will to live, so that even if I remain alive I’m essentially a walking corpse, until I decide I would have been better off had I been killed—I’m sorry, but you know how everything else pales when you get a really nasty paper cut.
Teddy Wayne’s
Unpopular Proverbs
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Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels Kapitoil and the forthcoming The Love Song of Jonny Valentine.
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Resilience.
BY Teddy Wayne
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