Joyland
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Read between July 17 - July 27, 2025
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Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar.
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“I am…Devin!”
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When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.
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“Kids are such a risk, Dev. Did that ever cross your mind?”
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. ♥
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Love leaves scars.
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I’m not sure men know how to talk about women in any meaningful way.
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As you learn to talk the Talk, you’ll learn to walk the walk. I’m not going to explain that, because it can’t be explained; it can only be learned.”
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“I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world,” Mrs. Shoplaw said. “Religion is supposed to comfort.”
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Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they’ve got the right on their side. Especially if they know scripture.”
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“The devil can quote scripture.”
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The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.