Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
BARRY LYGAI’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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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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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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Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
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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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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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(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.
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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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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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