…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
BARRY LYGAThis is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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.
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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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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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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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