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.
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More Barry Lyga Quotes
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
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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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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.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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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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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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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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. . . 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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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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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Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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