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.
BARRY LYGAJosh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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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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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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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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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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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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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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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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