It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
BARRY LYGAYou don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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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.
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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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You can’t rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don’t love Jecca. I don’t love Fanboy. But… God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won’t they. I don’t love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
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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 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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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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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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. . . but there’s a restraining order in place.’ She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘I’m not supposed to be this close to you.’ You were never supposed to be this close to me,’ I say, and I have no idea why.
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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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