Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“You're not smart enough to be afraid of me.”

— Barry Lyga

“At least you'll be alive to hate me.”

— Barry Lyga

“There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were…

— Barry Lyga

“My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of…

— Barry Lyga

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd…

— Barry Lyga

At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test…

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy…

— 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

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“Au contraire, mein Freund.”

— 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

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

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

— Barry Lyga

“Jazz closed his eyes.”

— 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

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

— Barry Lyga

Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie…

— Barry Lyga

“He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things…

— Barry Lyga

“Yes, pain meant life. But life did not mean pain.”

— Barry Lyga

“You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important.…

— Barry Lyga

“Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning--it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it…

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga