“Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“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 Barry, quote from Cruddy
“But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“Ask a burning question, get a burning answer”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“Twinkle twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years...”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chintziest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“Some nights looking at him scares me so bad I can hardly move and I start doing a prayer for protection. But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
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Born place: in Richland Center, WI, The United States
Born date January 2, 1956
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“To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,
And Following its path, we took no care
To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far,
through a round aperture I saw appear
Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,
Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from The Inferno
“Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you’re going.”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Build a Girl
“You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.”
― Laura Ruby, quote from Bone Gap
“Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from The Fever
“You need to ratchet down the crazy town.”
― A.E. Kirk, quote from Demons in Disguise
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