I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
BARRY LYGAMedicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
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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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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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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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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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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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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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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