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?
BARRY LYGAIt’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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And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we’re us.
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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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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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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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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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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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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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