quotes by Lynda Barry

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
— Lynda Barry

"You may be a lady but you are still the man!"
— Lynda Barry

"He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!"
— Lynda Barry

"Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chinztiest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time."
— Lynda Barry

"You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
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— Lynda Barry

"But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?"
— Lynda Barry (CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel)

"The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music."
— Lynda Barry