How Do I Love “Teeth”

Teeth (Simon Pulse, 2013)

How do I love Teeth? Let me count the ways.

I love Teeth with the depth of the oceans, and the force of its waves.

I love Teeth for the pain he took and the pleasure he gave.

I love Teeth as the sun glints on scales.

I love Teeth and his awful, ugly tail.

I love Teeth with all his tortured innocence.

I love Teeth and his voice’s dissonance.

I love Teeth for all the pain in his eyes.

I love Teeth because of how hard he tries.

I love Teeth and his inner beauty.

I love Teeth because he loves Rudy.

I love Teeth for what he does not know.

I love Teeth and watching him grow.

I love Teeth with the power of the turning tides.

I love Teeth for his strength inside.

I love Teeth and all his confusion.

I love Teeth because he’s not human.

I love Teeth when he’s hurt.

I love Teeth even more when he’s curt.

I love Teeth for everything he is.

I love Teeth because he protects what’s his.

I love Teeth and his use of ‘whatever’.

I love Teeth and darn, I’ll love him forever.

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Teeth is the character and namesake of Hannah Moskowitz’s novel Teeth.

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Chiara Sullivan is an Australian self-proclaimed bibliophile with an incurable book buying addiction. She is constantly in the midst of writing LGBT+ YA novels and hopes that one day they’ll appear on shelves so that people can read (and hopefully fall in love) with the words inside. When she’s not reading or writing you can find her tweeting, blogging about books, or watching Merlin.