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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

Barry Lyga

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
BARRY LYGA

Capacity Horror Humans
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
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Buying Lying Shelves
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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Buds Complicated Men Taste
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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Eye Keep Land Past Stop Train Watch
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
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
. . . 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
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
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
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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Choices Easy Life
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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Alive Cutting What
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
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
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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Break Josh Someone The Argument
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

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