Libba Bray Quotes - Page 15

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• It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

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  Powerful, Knowing, Want

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• Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

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  Angel, Thinking, Wonder

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise. They are warm, light as breath, firm as the give of a peach against my mouth. A scent like scorched cinnamon hangs in the air, but I'm not falling into any vision. It's his smell in me. A smell that makes my stomach drop through my feet. A smell that pushes all thought out of my head and replaces it with an overpowering hunger for more.

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  Fall, Kissing, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

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  Hands, Forever, Magic

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.

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  Kissing, Hands, Gentleman

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

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  Angel, Fighting, Missing

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• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

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  Book, Love Life, Arrows

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• When I dream, I dream of him.

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  Dream

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• In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.

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  Book, Wicked, Fine

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.791, Delacorte Press

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• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

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  Pregnancy, School, Class

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• There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

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  Difficult, Discovering, Discovering Who You Are

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• I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

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  Wish, Want, Should

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

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  Book, Numbers, Giving

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• She is the elephant’s eyebrows,” Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.” “That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,” Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn’t immune to the dazzle of a movie star.

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  Stars, Knowing, Jewels

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• This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

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  World

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1355, Delacorte Press

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• He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

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  World, Heal, Wanted

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• The sun has blessed you," Sarita used to say. "Look how he has left his kisses on your face for all to see and be jealous." "The sun loves you more," I said, rubbing my hands over her dry arms, the color of an aged wine gourd, and she laughed. But this is not India and we are not prized for our freckles here. The sun is not allowed to show his love.

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  Blessed, Love You, Jealous

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• Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

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  Girl, Exciting, Wanted

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• A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

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  Prayer, Branches, Down And

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.

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  Talking, Class, Humanity

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• I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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  Oracles, Librarian

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• We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark.

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  Dark, Barley, Realms

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• If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

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  Short Life, Easier, Permission

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• Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

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  Differences, Needs, Discord

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot.

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  Girl, Real, Kissing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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