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.
BARRY LYGAAre you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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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It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.
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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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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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