Libba Bray Quotes - Page 13

Quotes about:

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

Libba Bray

Girl, Blessing, Lips

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

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

Libba Bray

Jeans, Acid, Ifs

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

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Baby, Fighting, Daddy

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

Libba Bray

Gentleman, Felicity, Available

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

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Grateful, People, Missing

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

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

Libba Bray

Hate, Eight, High Heels

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

4 Copy quote
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!

Libba Bray

Girl, Dog, House

7 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Past, Two, Creepy

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

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Moving, Kids, Mean

13 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Stars, Kids, Dark

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

6 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Hipster, Crazy, Black And White

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

20 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Men, Animal, Hands

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Girl, Sports, Sexy

6 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Eye, Thinking, Temptation

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

War, Stupid, Grandma

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

5 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Girl, Silence, Parent

4 Copy quote
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!

Libba Bray

Angel, Order, Firsts

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Names, Long, Laughing

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

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Glasses, Attention, Want

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Tired, Courses, God Is Dead

5 Copy quote
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?

Libba Bray

Girl, New York, Kissing

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Kissing, Men, Long

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

Libba Bray

Laughing, Body, Littles

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

4 Copy quote
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.

Libba Bray

Doors, People, Comfort

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

Libba Bray

Worry, Memphis, His Smile

4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Maureen Johnson

Cassandra Clare

Maggie Stiefvater

Scott Westerfeld

Sarah Rees Brennan

Kelley Armstrong

Libba Bray

Follow

Born: March 11, 1964
Occupation: Writer
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics