132 Quotes by Barry Lyga

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

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

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    He realized he’d spent his life trying to understand Billy. But had never really understood himself.

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    One time you told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate. And I didn’t understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.

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    Ginny Davis – poor, dead Ginny – had lent Connie a set of yoga DVDs that looked like they’d come from the ancient 1990s.

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    I’m not sure which is worse – being born to it or learning it.

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