Libba Bray Quotes - Page 13

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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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• 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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• When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.

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  Hands, Sky, Sometimes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

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  Dog, Fire, House

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• I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.

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  Hate, Chuck E Cheese, Games

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.83, Scholastic Inc.

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• Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

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  Soccer, Mom, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.197, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

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  World, Sixteen, Imagine

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.1, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too?

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  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.

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  Party, Eye, Ohio

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• And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

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  Kissing, Found, Like Something

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.411, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

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  Silly, Eye, Shoes

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

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  Gentleman, Felicity, Available

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

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  Grateful, People, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

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  Destiny, Play, People

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• The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

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  Silence, Wish, Desperation

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• I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

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  Running, Pain, Hair

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

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  World, Changed, Situation

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.237, Delacorte Press

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• Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

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  Legs, Prepared, Ifs

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• I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

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  Girl, Doe, Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

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  Hate, Eight, High Heels

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.36, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

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  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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