Top 100 Barry Lyga Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Josh Mendel has a secret.
Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
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#6. Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.
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#7. 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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#8. Length isn't as important as what you say and how you say it.
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#9. If you don't feel anything, you can't be hurt.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. He fucked my wife!" George wailed. "He ruined my life!"
"Your wife was a goddamn whore!
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#14. 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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#15. Fate comes in and sweeps us all like a big broom, you hear? And the dust goes flyin' and it lands where it lands, and we get no say in the matter.
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#16. You don't break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don't.
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#17. Today she told me about the Crow King.
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#19. And if it's locked, I'll knock it the hell down."
He thinks when he busts out "hell" I take him more seriously. Yeah. Insert eye roll here.
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#20. It was an ugly day.
It was an ugly room.
Except for the body.
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#21. You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.
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#22. Zik spits into the dirt in from of home plate, his own little ritual. He digs in and grits his teeth, snarling at the Heat. Psychology. Baseball's all about psychology.
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#23. I was going to bake you a cake with a hacksaw in it," he said without preamble, " but-"
"But you realized it wouldn't work."
"Well, no. I realized I don't know how to bake.
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#24. 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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#25. My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of all the outfielders.
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#26. And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.
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#27. (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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#28. Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.
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#29. Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!
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#30. I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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#31. There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning and crying out in his sleep.
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#32. He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.
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#33. He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.
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#34. 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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#35. It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.
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#36. Ginny Davis - poor, dead Ginny - had lent Connie a set of yoga DVDs that looked like they'd come from the ancient 1990s.
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#37. He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel
he hated it with what he hoped was his soul.
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#38. At least he took the rest of the food I brought him. A growing boy fighting his insane father to the death has to keep the calorie count up there. Fighting to the death is sweaty work.
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#39. That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.
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#40. At least you'll be alive to hate me.
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#41. But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.
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#42. His safe haven had turned into an ambush.
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#43. The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when you absolutely have to. And the only way to know that you've done that is to talk about it, debate it, examine it, and make damn sure.
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#44. 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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#45. All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.
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#46. What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?
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#47. You're not smart enough to be afraid of me.
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#48. The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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#50. 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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#51. Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.
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#52. You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.
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#53. For a fat guy, G. William sure could sustain a long burst of screaming and yelling.
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#54. It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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#55. Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton? The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Someone's on the rag," she chides, then grabs her crotch as if adjusting a cup. "And it's not me.
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#60. I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.
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#61. That last voice in his head.
It hadn't been Billy's.
It was his own.
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#62. This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.
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#63. Jazz opened his eyes.
Conner opened her eyes.
Howie opened his eyes.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. I'm a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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#68. Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.
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#69. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.
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#70. Oh, that was smooth. I'm as subtle as a fart.
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#71. Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning
it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.
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#73. Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
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#75. 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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#76. No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.
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#77. It all happened. It wasn't a dream.
And I'm still alive.
I guess that's something.
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#78. That's what I thought I was. A stalker of stalkers. A predator preying on predators.
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#79. Jazz felt as though his own life was a mindfield, one he'd lost the map for. One wrong step and he'd lose a foot or leg. or his mind.
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#80. The pain would find him.
The pain always found him.
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#81. Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself
for now
without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've decided, is the mark of a totally kick-ass therapist.
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#82. I just need a second to collect myself. Just a
- listen to me! -
- fucking ruined my life! -
Just a second.
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#83. She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
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#84. Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.
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#85. Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Like that.
It's all right.
It's not all right.
It's right.
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#89. Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.
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#90. Homecoming's stupid. And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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#91. Mom's already dead!" I yelled at him. "Who the hell do you think you're saving?"
And he just gave me his Sad, Tired look. It's one of the three he's got, the other two being Pissed Off and Blised Out on ESPN.
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#92. But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.
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#93. When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.
Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.
So, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
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#94. Yes, pain meant life. But life did not mean pain.
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#95. You can never completely escape your DNA.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity.
Fanboy on his computer
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#99. Well, of course it was Billy screwing with his mind. That's what Billy did. Dear Old Dad had a PhD in mind screwing. The question was, was it just Billy screwing with his mind?
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#100. I won't let myself be used or manipulated. I won't let myself be a hypocrite.
I am foe me.
I am not weak.
For anyone.
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