132 Quotes by Barry Lyga

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

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

Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning – it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.

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

What’s it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?

People can wonder and ponder and imagine all they want. But their curiosity does not entitle them to enter my world.

He had to do it in secret. He didn’t want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don’t think that’ll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.

Well, of course it was Billy screwing with his mind. That’s what Billy did. Dear Old Dad had a PhD in mind screwing. The question was, was it just Billy screwing with his mind?