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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.

Barry Lyga

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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Girlfriend Hair Running
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
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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Hips More Sake Street Teach Urban
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Buying Lying Shelves
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
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Day Goddess Good School
See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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Events Forgiveness Process
Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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Kids Night Stupid
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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Alone Happen Magic Next Thinking
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
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 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
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Dad Live Revenge Well
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Frightening Sometimes World
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Drink Feelings Rivers
And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
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Best Friend Jobs Years
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
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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Anything Crazy Hate Skins
Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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Doors Men Ninja Spring
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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One Swings Hit
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

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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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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