We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
BARRY LYGA
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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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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[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 don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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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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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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(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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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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