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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

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
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
BARRY LYGA

Josh Mendel Secret
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
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
Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
BARRY LYGA

Doors Men Ninja Spring
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
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.
BARRY LYGA

Day End Parent People Staff
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
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
You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
BARRY LYGA

Lines Mirrors Way
[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
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 LYGA

Alone Happen Magic Next Thinking
I don’t know and I don’t care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
BARRY LYGA

Care Want Way
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
See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
BARRY LYGA

Events Forgiveness Process
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
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 just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
BARRY LYGA

Cancer Giving Reactions
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
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
BARRY LYGA

Ideas Jazz Stalking
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
BARRY LYGA

One Swings Hit
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
It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
BARRY LYGA

Day Goddess Good School
. . . 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.
BARRY LYGA

Carefully Ideas Order Speak Suppose
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
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

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