You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
BARRY LYGA(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.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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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(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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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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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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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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