You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.
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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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Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
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