He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he’s tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend’s hair. Ever.
BARRY LYGA…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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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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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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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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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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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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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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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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