Barry Lyga Quotes - Page 2

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

  Barry Lyga

  Pain, Mean, Property

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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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• See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

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  Forgiveness, Events, Process

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

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  Spring, Men, Doors

  Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.168, Random House

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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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• 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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  Grandmother, Imagination, Details

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• ...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.

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  Hands, Knives, Long

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• Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.

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  Children, Block, Rip

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Stupid, Kids, Night

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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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  Moving, Car, Forever

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Thinking, Phones, Expression

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.109, 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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• 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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• 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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  Real, Kids, Love Is

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Air, Years, Hatred

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• (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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Rivers, Feelings, Drink

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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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  Care, Want, Way

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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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