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I'm a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

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

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

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.

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?

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

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

Violence suits you.

That's what I thought I was. A stalker of stalkers. A predator preying on predators.

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

Any man worth having will wait for his woman to be ready. How can I not return the favor?

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.

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

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

Fate comes in and sweeps us all like a big broom, you hear? And the dust goes flyin' and it lands where it lands, and we get no say in the matter.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?
... The term was faith.

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

And if it's locked, I'll knock it the hell down."
He thinks when he busts out "hell" I take him more seriously. Yeah. Insert eye roll here.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

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

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

Ginny Davis - poor, dead Ginny - had lent Connie a set of yoga DVDs that looked like they'd come from the ancient 1990s.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

It was an ugly day.
It was an ugly room.
Except for the body.

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

And I think of nothing.
I think of nothing but Rachel.
What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

His safe haven had turned into an ambush.

I have to stop getting shot

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

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Jazz felt as though his own life was a mindfield, one he'd lost the map for. One wrong step and he'd lose a foot or leg. or his mind.

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.

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

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.

Oh, that was smooth. I'm as subtle as a fart.

Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

Even the lies were true.

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

Special kinda warm,

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

He fucked my wife!" George wailed. "He ruined my life!"

"Your wife was a goddamn whore!

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

Yes, pain meant life. But life did not mean pain.

You don't break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don't.

All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

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

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

How do i know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing?
Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

You know how that goes, G. William," Jazz said lightly. "If you outlaw police scanners, only outlaws will have police scanners.

I just need a second to collect myself. Just a
- listen to me! -
- fucking ruined my life! -
Just a second.

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

My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of all the outfielders.

You can never completely escape your DNA.

The pain would find him.
The pain always found him.

What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?

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

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

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

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.

At least you'll be alive to hate me.

I'm such a sleep pussy.

Don't crap where you eat

If you don't feel anything, you can't be hurt.

Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity.
Fanboy on his computer

Jazz opened his eyes.
Conner opened her eyes.
Howie opened his eyes.

Hell is being alone.

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

Today she told me about the Crow King.

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

Jazz closed his eyes.

Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

That last voice in his head.
It hadn't been Billy's.
It was his own.