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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.

Barry Lyga

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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Forget Forgiving Mean
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Buying Lying Shelves
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Mean Pain Property
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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Hate Opposites Thinking
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
At the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
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Challenges Day End Team
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Dad Live Revenge Well
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Josh Mendel Secret
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
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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Energy Labels Useless
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
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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Aside Future Look Looks Past Push
Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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Kids Night Stupid
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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Buds Complicated Men Taste
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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Running Stupid Trying
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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Care Want Way
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Day Goddess Good School
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
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
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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Adult Cling Kid Kids Love Real
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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Certain Kind Linkage Opposites Something
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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Ideas Jazz Stalking
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
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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One Swings Hit
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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Feelings Hate Mean
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
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

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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