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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.
Barry Lyga
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Barry Lyga
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 11
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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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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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Homecoming's stupid. And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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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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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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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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...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
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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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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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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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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
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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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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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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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