Libba Bray Quotes - Page 11

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• ...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

  Libba Bray

  Drunk, Irony, Sometimes

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• As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.

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  Fall, Flying High, Laughing

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• It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

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  Struggle, Trying, Skins

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

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  Believe, Magic, Illusion

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

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  Girl, Islands, Waiting

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.207, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

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  Girl, Expectations, Want

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• All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

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  Simple, Dying, Defense

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

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  Pain, Soul, Weight

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine?

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  Confused, Eye, Night

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.140, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

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  Decision, Different, Wrong Decision

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• On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.

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  Girl, Sports, Sexy

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• Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

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  Men, Animal, Hands

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• The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.

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  Hipster, Crazy, Black And White

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.113, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.

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  Girl, Littles, Hindi

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.659, Delacorte Press

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• I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can’t really be friends.” “I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you’re stealing my boyfriend? That’s a step too far!

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  Girl, Dog, House

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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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• Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

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  Past, Two, Creepy

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.

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  Girl, Silence, Parent

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• You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

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  Moving, Kids, Mean

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

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  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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

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  Terrible

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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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• 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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