![]() ![]() The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. I know it's silly and useless-epically useless in my current state-but I am an animal like any other. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. ![]() We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. ![]() That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.īut Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. “Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. ![]()
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