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Barry Lyga is an American young adult novelist and short story writer. He lives in New York. Lyga majored in English at Yale receiving his BA in 1993. He then spent ten years working at Diamond Comic Distributors after having spent his teenage years immersed in comic books. During this period, Lyga had seen his short stories published. His book Archvillain was released in October 2013. and I Hunt Killers was released in March 2012. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. September 1971
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Famous Barry Lyga Quotes

“Don’t crap where you eat”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

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

Barry Lyga

Source: Game

“I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“Hell is being alone.”

Barry Lyga

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

Barry Lyga Quotes

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

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“Medicine cabinets are. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.”

Barry Lyga

Source: Boy Toy

“What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?

… The term was.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me…. Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.”

Barry Lyga

Source: Boy Toy

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

Barry Lyga

Source: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

“Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.”

Barry Lyga

Source: Blood of My Blood

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

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”

Barry Lyga

Source: I Hunt Killers

“You're next.”

Barry Lyga

Blood of My Blood

“Violence suits you.”

Barry Lyga

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