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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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Feelings, Twenties, Records

Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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Swings

Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Girlfriend, Cutting, Cpr

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You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

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Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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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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Thinking, Magic, Next

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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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Jobs, Years, My Best Friend

Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.384, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Team, Challenges, The End Of The Day

Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Hate, Mean, Feelings

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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.

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Choices, Life Is, Easy

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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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Sports, Baseball, Running

Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Dad, Bridges, Worry

Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

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Lying, Buying, Shelves

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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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Running, Girlfriend, Hair

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

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Pain, Mean, Property

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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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Mom, Strong, Father

Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Dad, Men, Rocks

Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Eye, Past, Land

Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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Cancer, Giving, Reactions

Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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Baseball, Team, Men

Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

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Secret, Josh, Mendel

Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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. . . but there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

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Order, Ideas, Speak

Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don't love Jecca. I don't love Fanboy. But... God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won't they. I don't love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.

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Needs, Rely, I Can

Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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Hate, Thinking, Opposites

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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

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Stalking Me, Ideas, Jazz

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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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Flower, Heart, Cutting

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Born: September 11, 1971
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