Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
BARRY LYGAAnger 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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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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(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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I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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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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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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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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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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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