And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
BARRY LYGAIf 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.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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At 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.
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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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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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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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It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.
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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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