. . . but there’s a restraining order in place.’ She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘I’m not supposed to be this close to you.’ You were never supposed to be this close to me,’ I say, and I have no idea why.
BARRY LYGAAt the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
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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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And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we’re us.
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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn’t care about you, they’d just forget about you. They wouldn’t even waste the time hating you.
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And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? ‘Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I’ll just take them with me…. Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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.
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