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 LYGAAnd I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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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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. . . 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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.
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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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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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I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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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 what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? ‘Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I’ll just take them with me…. Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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