I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
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