Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
BARRY LYGAIt’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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(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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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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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. . . but there’s a restraining order in place.’ She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘I’m not supposed to be this close to you.’ You were never supposed to be this close to me,’ I say, and I have no idea why.
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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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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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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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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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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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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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