Barry Lyga · 311 pages
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“I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it.
I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“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 hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“A guy next to me sees the massive bruise on my arm.
"God, what a wuss! You got bruised from playing dodge ball?" I look at him, and I realize that I don't know him. I don't even recognize him from walking through the halls or assemblies. I couldn't tell you what grade he's in or what classes he takes. So why does he even bother? Why does he even bother being mean to me?”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“Oh, that was smooth. I'm as subtle as a fart.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
“Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity.
--Fanboy on his computer”
― Barry Lyga, quote from The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Barry Lyga
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“The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything.”
― David Brooks, quote from Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
“Most of the January firsts in recent memory have involved splitting headaches and roiling stomachs and often being
surprised about where I was waking up. (“No, Officer, I have no idea why I’m wearing this possum costume. I called you what? Oh. My bad.”)”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Darkness Falls
“And hence it is, that to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety. As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.”
― Adam Smith, quote from The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Gwendolyn Galsworth writes that the purpose of visual management is to reduce "information deficits" in the workplace. She writes that "In an information-scarce workplace, people ask lots of questions, and lots of the same questions, repeatedly- or they make stuff up.”
― Mark Graban, quote from Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
“He spent the last second of his life screaming, as the force of Bortan's leap pulped him against the ground, before his head was snatched from his shoulders.
My hellhound had arrived.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from This Immortal
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