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.
BARRY LYGA…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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. . . 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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(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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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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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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.
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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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