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

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Barry Lyga
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 11
Novelist
Writer
Ninja
Cabinets
Medicine
Spring
Doors
Dangerous
Men
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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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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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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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...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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