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.
BARRY LYGAI 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!
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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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.
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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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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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