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And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Josh Mendel Secret
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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Capacity Horror Humans
It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.
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Choices Easy Life
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Dad Live Revenge Well
Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
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Running Stupid Trying
And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we’re us.
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Day End Parent People Staff
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Cancer Giving Reactions
It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn’t care about you, they’d just forget about you. They wouldn’t even waste the time hating you.
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Feelings Hate Mean
You can’t rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don’t love Jecca. I don’t love Fanboy. But… God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won’t they. I don’t love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
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Every Needs Rely Single Time
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Day Goddess Good School
Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
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Hips More Sake Street Teach Urban
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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Energy Labels Useless
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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Break Josh Someone The Argument
And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
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Alone Happen Magic Next Thinking
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
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Certain Kind Linkage Opposites Something
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
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Adult Cling Kid Kids Love Real

And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

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And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

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