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.
BARRY LYGALook, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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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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What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
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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.
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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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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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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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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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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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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
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