Blood of My Blood Quotes

“Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Even the lies were true.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“It was an ugly day.
It was an ugly room.
Except for the body.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“If you don't feel anything, you can't be hurt.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“I'm not sure which is worse--being born to it or learning it.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“You're next.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“At least you'll be alive to hate me.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Billy always survived. Like a cockroach. The world's smartest, meanest, craziest cockroach.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“I was going to bake you a cake with a hacksaw in it," he said without preamble, " but-"
"But you realized it wouldn't work."
"Well, no. I realized I don't know how to bake.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“He realized he'd spent his life trying to understand Billy. But had never really understood himself.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Violence suits you.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning--it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“I’m going to die. This is how I’m going to die, and this is where I’m going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“She knew all about the cops and their trigger fingers and their predilection for dealing with those who would attack their brethren. Her father had drummed such stories into her from a young age; more so into Whiz, who bore the burden of being a black boy about to grow into a black teen. "If the police even look at you funny," Dad had said, "you hit the ground and put your hands over your head. Don't talk back. Don't try to run. Don't try to explain. They're just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Don't give it to them.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“I have to stop getting shot”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“At least he took the rest of the food I brought him. A growing boy fighting his insane father to the death has to keep the calorie count up there. Fighting to the death is sweaty work.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“For a fat guy, G. William sure could sustain a long burst of screaming and yelling.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“It all happened. It wasn't a dream.
And I'm still alive.
I guess that's something.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood