Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If youโre afraid, thatโs the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Donโt run; donโt panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
Barry LygaA river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
Barry LygaAnger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
Barry LygaYou donโt break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I donโt.
Barry Lyga(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
Barry LygaDon't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.
Barry Lyga