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• Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

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  Past, Looks

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

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  Feelings, Twenties, Records

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ¿Y qué? ¿Se corta accidentalmente tres dedos postmortem? Oops, oh, no, ¡mi novia acaba de morir! Torpe de mí, al intentar hacer la reanimación cardiopulmonar, ¡le he cortado algunos dedos! Supongo que me los llevaré conmigo.... Maldita sea, ¿dónde está el dedo corazón?

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  Girlfriend, Cutting, Cpr

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• Tú y tus cicatrices. ¡Por favor! No te mates así". Hago un gesto, sosteniendo una muñeca vuelta hacia el techo, y luego finjo cortarla con la otra mano. "Eso es sólo un grito de auxilio. Eso sólo es llamar la atención. Todo el mundo lo sabe. Si te haces un corte, te mandan al hospital. Eso es sólo de las películas y programas de televisión y cosas por el estilo. En realidad no intentaste suicidarte. Sólo querías llamar la atención, pero la cagaste. Esfuérzate más la próxima vez.

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  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

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  Thinking, Magic, Next

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• And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

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  Jobs, Years, My Best Friend

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.384, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.

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  Team, Challenges, The End Of The Day

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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!

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  Thinking, Phones, Expression

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

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• Sí", dijo Howie solemnemente. "Puedo enseñarte a ser más 'callejero'". "Por el amor de Dios..." "¿O es 'urbano'? No me acuerdo. De todos modos, puedo enseñarte, saltamontes. O hip-hopper.

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  Sake, Hips, Urban

  Barry Lyga (2014). “Game”, p.145, Random House

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• One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.

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  Hate, Thinking, Opposites

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• You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don't love Jecca. I don't love Fanboy. But... God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won't they. I don't love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.

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  Needs, Rely, I Can

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love made her strong. She kept telling me-after she was diagnosed-she ket telling me, "I'm going to beat this Kyra. I'm going to come out of it. I love you and I love your father and that love is my strength. You're my strength.

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  Mom, Strong, Father

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• (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.

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  Dad, Men, Rocks

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Cancer, Giving, Reactions

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

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  Secret, Josh, Mendel

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No lo sé y ya no me importa. Se suponía que debía salirme con la mía por una vez, sólo una vez en mi vida. Hice todo bien y no conseguí nada por ello. Quiero matarlos a todos. No, mejor aún, quiero morir. No, incluso mejor que eso: Quiero matarlos a todos y luego morir.

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  Care, Want, Way

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

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  Stupid, Kids, Night

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

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  Rivers, Feelings, Drink

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

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  Stalking Me, Ideas, Jazz

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• 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.

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  Hate, Mean, Feelings

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• ...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.

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  Hands, Knives, Long

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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 quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.

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  Grandmother, Imagination, Details

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• 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.

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  Deportes, Béisbol, Correr

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

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• 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.

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  Running, Girlfriend, Hair

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

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  Lying, Buying, Shelves

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