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.
BARRY LYGAA river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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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Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
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And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
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I don’t know and I don’t care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
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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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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 won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
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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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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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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!
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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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Jazz hadn’t given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he’d told her enough that she knew it wasn’t hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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