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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.

Barry Lyga

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
BARRY LYGA

Certain Kind Linkage Opposites Something
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
BARRY LYGA

Anything Crazy Hate Skins
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.
BARRY LYGA

Challenges Day End Team
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
BARRY LYGA

Josh Mendel Secret
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
BARRY LYGA

Alive Cutting What
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

Girlfriend Hair Running
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.
BARRY LYGA

Running Stupid Trying
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.
BARRY LYGA

Eye Keep Land Past Stop Train Watch
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.
BARRY LYGA

Hot Ready Thinking Totally
Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
BARRY LYGA

Air Bleed Day Hatred Over Time Years
This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
BARRY LYGA

Forget Forgiving Mean
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
BARRY LYGA

Mean Pain Property
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.
BARRY LYGA

Adult Cling Kid Kids Love Real
See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
BARRY LYGA

Events Forgiveness Process
(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.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Men Rocks
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
BARRY LYGA

Buds Complicated Men Taste

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.

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