Barry Lyga Quotes

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

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

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

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.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

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.

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

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

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

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

(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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.So, yeah.Oh, yeah.

Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.