It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
BARRY LYGAAnger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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.
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Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
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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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This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
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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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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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