Libba Bray Quotes - Page 12

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

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  Worry, Memphis, His Smile

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

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  Sound, Gonzo, Gas

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.313, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

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  Jeans, Acid, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

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  Running, Queens, Pain

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• What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

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  Baby, Fighting, Daddy

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• Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

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  Boards, Cows, Marigolds

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