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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.

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

Buds Complicated Men Taste
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
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
BARRY LYGA

One Swings Hit
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
BARRY LYGA

Frightening Sometimes World
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
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
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
(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
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
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?
BARRY LYGA

Accident Cutting Girlfriend Postmortem Solve Try
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Live Revenge Well
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
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
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
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
BARRY LYGA

Ideas Jazz Stalking
You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
BARRY LYGA

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

Josh Mendel Secret
It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.
BARRY LYGA

Choices Easy Life

(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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