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.
BARRY LYGALook, 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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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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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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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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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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Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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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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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