Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
BARRY LYGASee, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
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. . . but there’s a restraining order in place.’ She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘I’m not supposed to be this close to you.’ You were never supposed to be this close to me,’ I say, and I have no idea why.
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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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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Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
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I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!
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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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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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Jazz hadn’t given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he’d told her enough that she knew it wasn’t hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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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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