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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

Barry Lyga

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
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
Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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Kids Night Stupid
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
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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Accident Cutting Girlfriend Postmortem Solve Try
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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Car Forever Moving
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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Buds Complicated Men Taste
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?
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Alive Cutting What
(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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Dad Men Rocks
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Frightening Sometimes World
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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Ideas Jazz Stalking
He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he’s tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend’s hair. Ever.
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Girlfriend Hair Running
. . . 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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Carefully Ideas Order Speak Suppose
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Buying Lying Shelves
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
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
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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Eye Keep Land Past Stop Train Watch
See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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Events Forgiveness Process
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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Expression Phones Thinking
Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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Doors Men Ninja Spring
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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Cutting Flower Heart
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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Feelings Less Nostalgic Records The Twenties
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
I don’t know and I don’t care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
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Care Want Way
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
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

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

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