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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed

Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.

Barry Lyga
Grandmother, Imagination, Details

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 batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

Barry Lyga
Sports, Baseball, Running
Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Running, Girlfriend, Hair

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

Barry Lyga
Lying, Buying, Shelves

Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

Barry Lyga
Stupid, Kids, Night

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
Thinking, Phones, Expression
Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Hate, Mean, Feelings

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