Barry Lyga

“Today she told me about the Crow King.”

— Barry Lyga

“Violence suits you.”

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“Length isn’t as important as what you say and how you say it.”

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“The pain would find him. The pain always found him.”

— Barry Lyga

“I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.”

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate…

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“Someone's on the rag," she chides, then grabs her crotch as if adjusting a cup. "And it's not me.”

— Barry Lyga

“He fucked my wife!" George wailed. "He ruined my life!" "Your wife was a goddamn whore!”

— Barry Lyga

“It all happened. It wasn't a dream. And I'm still alive. I guess that's something.”

— Barry Lyga

“The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second…

— Barry Lyga

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids…

— Barry Lyga

“Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself--for now--without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've…

— Barry Lyga

And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR,…

— Barry Lyga

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I…

— Barry Lyga

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…

— Barry Lyga

I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does. "How's it…

— Barry Lyga

“The world pretty much sucks most of the time. But the point of life isn’t to live in a world that doesn’t…

— Barry Lyga

“In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that…

— Barry Lyga

“See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event -- it's a process. Forgiveness happens while you're asleep, while you're…

— Barry Lyga

“I'm strong thanks to you, Kyra. You're my strength." And who the hell was she to put that burden on me? I…

— Barry Lyga

It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went…

— Barry Lyga

“Parents get all focused on themselves, and they see their little babies start walkin' and talkin', and since they kinda look like…

— Barry Lyga

“Jazz shook his head. “No. The fingers. Your average murderer doesn’t mutilate a body like that. And he especially doesn’t take trophies.…

— Barry Lyga

“Kevin: 'Hey, Dad. How do you stop people from being stupid?' Dad: 'You don't.' Kevin: 'Really?' Dad: 'I've tried to explain to…

— Barry Lyga

“Can they, like get fingerprints from her neck? Can they catch the guy that way?” “This guy isn’t an amateur. He probably…

— Barry Lyga

“No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.”

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“Popular culture woefully underprepares us for actual therapy.”

— Barry Lyga

“Oh, that was smooth. I'm as subtle as a fart.”

— Barry Lyga

“Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.”

— Barry Lyga

“Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.”

— Barry Lyga