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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.

Barry Lyga

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Mean Pain Property
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Josh Mendel Secret
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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Bridge Dad Worry
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
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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Air Bleed Day Hatred Over Time Years
You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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Lines Mirrors Way
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Day Goddess Good School
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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Ideas Jazz Stalking
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
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
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
(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
. . . 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
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
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
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

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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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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