Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
BARRY LYGAJazz 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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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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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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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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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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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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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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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