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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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You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

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Angel, Order, Firsts

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Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

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Names, Long, Laughing

Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.50, Hachette UK

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She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.

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Glasses, Attention, Want

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Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.

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Tired, Courses, God Is Dead

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You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. “You can’t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?

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Girl, New York, Kissing

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Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.

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Kissing, Men, Long

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Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

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Laughing, Body, Littles

Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.37, Hachette UK

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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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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.

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Eye, Thinking, Temptation

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God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.

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War, Stupid, Grandma

"Beauty Queens". Book by Libba Bray, May 24, 2011.

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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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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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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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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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He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

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Doors, People, Comfort

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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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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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We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

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Cry, Behave

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

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Kissing, Epic, Feelings

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...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

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Brother, Children, Childhood

Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

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Perfect, Way, Guidance

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What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

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Food, Bears, Kind

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She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.

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Girl, Blessing, Lips

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.199, Scholastic Inc.

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