Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
BARRY LYGAYes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
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I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!
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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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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.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
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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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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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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 humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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At the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
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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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