143 Quotes by Lynda Barry

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

[Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool!Take me on!Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants!You think I'm playin'?

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

The future is fixed.The past ever-changing

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

[Lynda's mother] You're stupid and you don't know it, that's you're problem. You talk, talk, talk, all the time. No one wants to listen to an idiot.[Young Lynda] Uh. OK. Thanks, Mom.

Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

No, she answered, “one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.