Barry Lyga Quotes

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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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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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Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love made her strong. She kept telling me-after she was diagnosed-she ket telling me, "I'm going to beat this Kyra. I'm going to come out of it. I love you and I love your father and that love is my strength. You're my strength.

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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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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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Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

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This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

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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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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.

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I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does. "How's it hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!

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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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Here's the thing about baseball-it's not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter's box like a soldier and it's up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here's the thing I didn't understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself—over and over—not to do it.

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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

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In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

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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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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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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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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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It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

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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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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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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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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

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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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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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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

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