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Barry Lyga

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Live Revenge Well
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
Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
BARRY LYGA

Kids Night Stupid
See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
BARRY LYGA

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

Cancer Giving Reactions
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
BARRY LYGA

One Swings Hit
[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
You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
BARRY LYGA

Lines Mirrors Way
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
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
BARRY LYGA

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

Buds Complicated Men Taste
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
. . . 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
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
BARRY LYGA

Frightening Sometimes World

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