Barry Lyga Quotes

 "You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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?" ~ Barry Lyga

 "We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

 "This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore." ~ Barry Lyga

 "I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds." ~ Barry Lyga

 "You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

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

 "The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

 "And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record." ~ Barry Lyga

 "You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit." ~ Barry Lyga

 "It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

 "I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors." ~ Barry Lyga

 "See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is." ~ Barry Lyga

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

 "Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga

 "...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow." ~ Barry Lyga

 "Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night." ~ Barry Lyga

 "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." ~ Barry Lyga