Sometimes hope could be the ...

Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.
 Barry Lyga

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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
 Barry Lyga
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
In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.
 Barry Lyga
Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
 Barry Lyga
They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was Thou shalt not leave evidence.
 Barry Lyga