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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.

Barry Lyga

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
BARRY LYGA

Air Bleed Day Hatred Over Time Years
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
BARRY LYGA

Ideas Jazz Stalking
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.
BARRY LYGA

Feelings Hate Mean
Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
BARRY LYGA

Josh Mendel Secret
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Live Revenge Well
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
This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
BARRY LYGA

Forget Forgiving Mean
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
BARRY LYGA

Energy Labels Useless
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
…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
BARRY LYGA

Buying Lying Shelves
Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
BARRY LYGA

Bridge Dad Worry
(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
BARRY LYGA

Dad Men Rocks
[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
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
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.
BARRY LYGA

Care Want Way
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

Choices Easy Life

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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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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