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“Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself
over and over
not to do it.”
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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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“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”

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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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“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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“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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“You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.”

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“Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton? The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.”

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“Don't crap where you eat”

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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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Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.

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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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“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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“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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“In a way, i feel sorry for boys. They're weak. You show them boobs or a butt and they just fall apart.
But I feel sorry for girls, too. Because girls get screwed, even when they're not naked with a guy. Everyone hates girls
even other girls. I mean, "girl" is like an insult, you know? "That's so girly." "Stop being a girl." "You're like a little girl."
Hey, you know what? I was a little girl once and I kicked ass. I was awesome.”

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If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

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“Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.”

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Josh Mendel has a secret.
Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

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She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

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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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“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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“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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(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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

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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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“Homecoming's stupid. And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.”

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“When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.
Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.
So, yeah.
Oh, yeah.”

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She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

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“Someone's on the rag," she chides, then grabs her crotch as if adjusting a cup. "And it's not me.”

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“Length isn't as important as what you say and how you say it.”

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“The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when you absolutely have to. And the only way to know that you've done that is to talk about it, debate it, examine it, and make damn sure.”

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“He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.”

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In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat.
And the ball.

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“That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.”

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“This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.”

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“He thought for a moment. About puppets.
About being controlled.
Everyone was controlled by something, the Impressionist knew. By a spouse. A parent. A boss. A friend. By one's own impulses, be they dark or light.
Everyone was a puppet to something.
Most people just couldn't see the strings, is all. And so they didn't believe they were puppets in the first place.”

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“I won't let myself be used or manipulated. I won't let myself be a hypocrite.
I am foe me.
I am not weak.
For anyone.”

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“It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.”

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“You're not smart enough to be afraid of me.”

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“No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.”

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“Today she told me about the Crow King.”

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“At least he took the rest of the food I brought him. A growing boy fighting his insane father to the death has to keep the calorie count up there. Fighting to the death is sweaty work.”

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I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

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For a fat guy, G. William sure could sustain a long burst of screaming and yelling.

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It all happened. It wasn't a dream.
And I'm still alive.
I guess that's something.

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“Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.”

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“Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.”

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“Like that.
It's all right.
It's not all right.
It's right.”

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“Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.”