Libba Bray Quotes - Page 11

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• Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.

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  Eye, Cutting, Ohio

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

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  Beautiful, Unique, Grasshoppers

  Libba Bray (2003). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.416, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

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  Eye, School, Kids

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• I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

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  Trying, Might, Knows

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• Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

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  School, Skills, Feet

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

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  Farewell, Apology, Men

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press

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• Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

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  Girl, Eye, Looks

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.

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  Girl, Coffee, Cups

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• Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

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  Reason, Sucker, Presbyterians

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• Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

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  Yelling, Feelings, Mind

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• She's no beauty, mate

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  Mates

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.

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  Waiting, Shore, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

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  Morning

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.536, Simon and Schuster

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• A place to keep all your secrets

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  Secret

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.

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  Pain, Hero, Guitar

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• Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

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  Father, Fighting, Rocks

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

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  Sorry, Mistake, People

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1216, Delacorte Press

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• Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

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  Magic, Protected, Knows

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1287, Delacorte Press

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• How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

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  Certain, Get Away, Knows

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

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  Thinking, Feet, Pigeons

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• Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

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  Bows, Plus, Affected

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

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  Castles, Ninja, Just Saying

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.328, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

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  Ashes, Stealing, Recalls

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

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  Terrible

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• Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

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  School, Sheep, Stuck

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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