Libba Bray Quotes - Page 14

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• The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

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  Night, Wind, Secret

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.

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  War, Lying, Fall

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• Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

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  Moving, Dark, Axes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

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  Doors, Shadow, Rooms

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• She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

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  Life, Country, Brother

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• Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. After three tries, he gives up. I'm afraid this fire's had it." I can see a few embers remaining. "No, I think not. If..." He sighs, and it says everything.

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  Giving Up, Fall, Mean

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• Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.

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  Beautiful, Mouths, Arms

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• That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

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  Lying, Dark, Soul

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

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• If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

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  Use, Bits, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

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  Girl, Cigarette Smoke, Goofy

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• With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.

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  Mother, Young Generation, Example

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• Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

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  Desire Love, Looks, Use

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

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  Order, People, Parent

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• Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

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  Choices, Fine Things, Fine

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

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  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

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  Uncles, Ties, Textbooks

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• All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

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  Morning, Prayer, Simple

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

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• My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

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  Dad, Kids, Ministers

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• I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

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  Children, Lying, Believe

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• Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

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  Apology, Cruise, Amen

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• We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

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  Want, Roles, Accepting

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• The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

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  Shoes, Police, Helping

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• The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

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  Morning, Noon, Trouble

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

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  Each Day, Littles, Wonder

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.

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  Girl, Dream, Stars

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