What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
BARRY LYGAThis is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? ‘Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I’ll just take them with me…. Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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