We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
BARRY LYGAJosh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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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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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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(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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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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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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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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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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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You can’t rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don’t love Jecca. I don’t love Fanboy. But… God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won’t they. I don’t love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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