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 LYGAWhat was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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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. . . 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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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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?
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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