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.
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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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. . . 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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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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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Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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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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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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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.
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If I think she’ hot and it turns out she’s a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I’m totally not ready for that kind of therapy.
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