Quotes by Barry Lyga

Barry Lyga

. . . 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.

Ideas

Order

Speak

…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.

Hands

Knives

Long

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

Buying

Lying

Shelves

(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.

Dad

Men

Rocks

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.

Crazy

Hate

Skins

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

Drink

Feelings

Rivers

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.

Jobs

My Best Friend

Years

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.

Parent

People

The End Of The Day

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?

Cpr

Cutting

Girlfriend

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

Energy

Labels

Useless

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Baseball

Blood

Break

Bridges

Buying

Cancer

Certain

Choices

Cpr

Crazy

Cutting

Dad

Details

Drink

Easy

Energy

Events

Eye

Fashion

Father

Feelings

Forget

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Frightening

Girlfriend

Giving

Grandmother

Hair

Hands

Hate

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Imagination

Jobs

Josh

Kids

Kind

Knives

Labels

Land

Life Is

Light

Lines

Live Well

Long

Love Is

Lying

Mean

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Quotes by Barry Lyga

Barry Lyga

. . . 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.

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

(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.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

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.

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.

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?

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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