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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.

    Thinking   Hot   Doe  
  • 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.

    Choices   Life Is   Easy  
  • See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

  • 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.

    Flower   Heart   Cutting  
  • 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.

    Eye   Past   Land  
    Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.

    Children   Block   Rip  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

    Thinking   Magic   Next  
  • Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

    Stupid   Kids   Night  
  • What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

    Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.56, Random House
  • Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

    Moving   Car   Forever  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

    Revenge   Dad   Live Well  
    Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

    Air   Years   Hatred  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

    Mirrors   Lines   Way  
    Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.321, Random House
  • ...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  
  • We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

    Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.258, Random House
  • Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.

    Running   Stupid   Trying  
  • 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.

    Hate   Mean   Feelings  
  • ...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

    Lying   Buying   Shelves  
  • You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don't love Jecca. I don't love Fanboy. But... God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won't they. I don't love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.

    Needs   Rely   I Can  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

    Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.45, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    Real   Kids   Love Is  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.384, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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 (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.277, Random House
  • It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

    Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

  • Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

    Secret   Josh   Mendel  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

    Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Care   Want   Way  
  • Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love made her strong. She kept telling me-after she was diagnosed-she ket telling me, "I'm going to beat this Kyra. I'm going to come out of it. I love you and I love your father and that love is my strength. You're my strength.

    Mom   Strong   Father  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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