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 LYGAIf 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.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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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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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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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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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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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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?
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
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