Barry Lyga on cutting
Barry Lyga47 quotes“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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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.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga 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 LygaBarry Lyga You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga 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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Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
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Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath.
Bernd HeinrichBernd Heinrich Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
Benny BinionBenny Binion The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Benny HillBenny Hill The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.
Ben WeaverBen Weaver The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be making albums.
Ben GibbardBen Gibbard Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses Even as her words cut deep,
Ben JelenBen Jelen Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you’ve the chance.
Ben LernerBen Lerner
