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It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.

Barry Lyga

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 LYGA

Every Needs Rely Single Time
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
BARRY LYGA

Cancer Giving Reactions
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 LYGA

Cutting Flower Heart
You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
BARRY LYGA

Lines Mirrors Way
Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
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Car Forever Moving
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Dad Live Revenge Well
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?
BARRY LYGA

Accident Cutting Girlfriend Postmortem Solve Try
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
BARRY LYGA

Drink Feelings Rivers
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.
BARRY LYGA

Best Friend Jobs Years
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
BARRY LYGA

Break Josh Someone The Argument
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
BARRY LYGA

Anything Crazy Hate Skins
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!
BARRY LYGA

Expression Phones Thinking
He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he’s tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend’s hair. Ever.
BARRY LYGA

Girlfriend Hair Running
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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Mean Pain Property
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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Frightening Sometimes World
At the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
BARRY LYGA

Challenges Day End Team

It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.

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It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.

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