Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
BARRY LYGAIt 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.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
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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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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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