Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
BARRY LYGAIt 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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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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One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.
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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 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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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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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 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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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