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1 " Hey, remember how we used to spend hours playing together in your sandbox? Wasn’t that so great? Well, now I really want t make out in your sandbox. Wait, where are you going? It doesn’t have to be in your sandbox! "
― Jared Reck , A Short History of the Girl Next Door
2 " My inner-movie director has me standing at the grave site holding fresh-picked daisies -Tabby’s favorite- in the rain, like always, and I want to punch him in his stupid fucking face. "
3 " Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think anything of it, then all of a sudden, one day, it’s different? You see that goofy grin a thousand times and just laugh, but goofy grin number 1,001 nearly stops your heart? "
4 " The funeral was really sad, but Chinatown fucking killed this moo shu tonight! "
5 " She wouldn’t have been Tabby. And I wouldn’t be me. But now, there is no Tabby. And I hate being me. "
6 " But I am not a competent social being. "
7 " Mom asked me this morning if I’d made my New Year’s resolution yet. I told her it’s to get a tattoo on my butt cheek of half a heart, like those friendship necklaces, and trip was going to get the other half-we’re still arguing over who gets the Best butt cheek and who gets the Friends cheek. Each has its own issues in isolation. I feel like there’s a poem in there somewhere. "
8 " Why are people not burning this fucking place to the ground? "
9 " The lids are closed, and it hits me that they’ll never be opened again. I’ll never see Tabby’s face again. "
10 " It’s our memories that make us who we are -those moments that, for whatever reason, big or small, stick in our brains, that make up our stories. "
11 " Nothing like having your grandma call you a slut in front of a bunch of old people. But at least the pork and sauerkraut is still gross! "
12 " I still love that girl.God, I love that girl. "
13 " Everything’s fine. "
14 " The man most really love himself some pot pie. "
15 " It seems my brain has finally stopped working. "
16 " My movie is shit. "
17 " Nothing stops. Except Tabby. "
18 " Everything keeps going, except Tabby "
19 " Trying to see the exact moment the world kept going without her. "
20 " If time is relative-if two hours of trick-or-treating with Tabby can feel lick two minutes while a forty-minute science, or twenty seconds in front of Corey Sheridan with tears threatening, drags on for eternity- what’s it mean to die instantly? "