Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“Don’t crap where you eat”

— Barry Lyga

“Even the lies were true.”

— Barry Lyga

“I'm such a sleep pussy.”

— Barry Lyga

“Hell is being alone.”

— Barry Lyga

“Violence suits you.”

— Barry Lyga

“Jazz closed his eyes.”

— Barry Lyga

“Special kinda warm,”

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— 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

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— 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

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

“When you feel like things are out of control, you take control. Yeah, that's what you do. Take control. So, yeah. Oh,…

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

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

— Barry Lyga

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive?…

— 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

“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

“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

(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental…

— 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

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

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

— 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'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

“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

“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

“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

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

— 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

Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the…

— Barry Lyga

“He turns to the Council. 'Sounds like Foolish behavior to me, boys. I hereby nominate the human race for membership in the…

— Barry Lyga