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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
Barry Lyga
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Barry Lyga
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 11
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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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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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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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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.
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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply Life did not mean pain.
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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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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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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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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.
Barry Lyga
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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton? The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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