Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
BARRY LYGACars 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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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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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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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 just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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