Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
BARRY LYGASometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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. . . 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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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
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At the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
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Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
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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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(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
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