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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.

Barry Lyga

One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.
BARRY LYGA

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

Dad Live Revenge Well
Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
BARRY LYGA

Bridge Dad Worry
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
BARRY LYGA

Mean Pain Property
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.
BARRY LYGA

Aside Future Look Looks Past Push
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
BARRY LYGA

Cancer Giving Reactions
Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
BARRY LYGA

Kids Night Stupid
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
BARRY LYGA

Certain Kind Linkage Opposites Something
(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.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Men Rocks
Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
BARRY LYGA

Car Forever Moving
[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
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
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
BARRY LYGA

Drink Feelings Rivers
Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
BARRY LYGA

Hips More Sake Street Teach Urban
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.
BARRY LYGA

Feelings Hate Mean
You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
BARRY LYGA

One Swings Hit

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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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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