And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we’re us.
BARRY LYGACars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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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Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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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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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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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.
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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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