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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.

Barry Lyga

You can’t rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don’t love Jecca. I don’t love Fanboy. But… God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won’t they. I don’t love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
BARRY LYGA

Every Needs Rely Single Time
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
BARRY LYGA

Energy Labels Useless
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
BARRY LYGA

Drink Feelings Rivers
Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
BARRY LYGA

Feelings Less Nostalgic Records The Twenties
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.
BARRY LYGA

Feelings Hate Mean
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.
BARRY LYGA

Cutting Flower Heart
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 LYGA

Aside Future Look Looks Past Push
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
BARRY LYGA

Day Goddess Good School
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
BARRY LYGA

Buying Lying Shelves
Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
BARRY LYGA

Bridge Dad Worry
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
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
BARRY LYGA

Capacity Horror Humans
(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
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
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
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
BARRY LYGA

Break Josh Someone The Argument

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