But you donāt have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.āāYou donāt have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isnāt always out to get you.
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We’d start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.
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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs.
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You said the other day life was long,’ I shot back. ‘Which is it?’ ‘It’s both,’ she said, shrugging. ‘It all depends on how you choose to live it. It’s like forever, always changing.’Kristy and Macy; p.135
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But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
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Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?””In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
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The thing is, you canāt always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.
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Itās funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine.
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So you’re always honest,” I said.”Aren’t you?””No,” I told him. “I’m not.””Well, that’s good to know, I guess.””I’m not saying I’m a liar,” I told him. He raised his eyebrows. “That’s not how I meant it, anyways.””How’d you mean it, then?””I just…I don’t always say what I feel.””Why not?””Because the truth sometimes hurts,” I said.”Yeah,” he said. “So do lies, though.
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Plus thereās the fact,ā he went on, making it clear he didnāt need me to reply anyway, āthat music is a total constant. Thatās why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.
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