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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Libba Bray

Boys, Thinking, Transgender

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.365, Scholastic Inc.

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In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

Libba Bray

Stars, Math, Simple

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

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Girl, Beer, Expression

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

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Girl, Bikinis, Sticks

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.367, Scholastic Inc.

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To live is to love, to love is to live.

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Love Is

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He smiles sadly. "Now I know my destiny." "What is it?" "This." He draws me in to him in a kiss. His lips are warm. He pulls me tighter in his embrace. The roots sigh and release their hold on my waist and the wound in my side is healed. "Kartik," I cry, kissing his cheeks. "It's let me go." "That's good," he says. He makes a small cry. His back arches, and every muscle in his body tightens.

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Kissing, Destiny, Roots

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

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Lying, Fighting, Giving

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.

Libba Bray

Girl, Mother, Father

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But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

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Mean, Opportunity, You've Changed

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.

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Father, Greatness, Luxury

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Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

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Brother, Heart, Destiny

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

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Fighting, Trying, Purpose

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

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Girl, Powerful, Magic

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Memphis—it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.

Libba Bray

Brother, Flower, Giving

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What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will’s attaché case. “I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you’d want an original,” Evie snapped.

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Book, Long, Jerusalem

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It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' 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' -page 569

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Magic, Pages, Legacy

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

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Horse, Mean, Looks

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and 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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Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.

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Art, Stupid, Pigs

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.

Libba Bray

Girl, Boys, Ohio

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...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

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Running, Crazy, Thinking

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I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

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Eye, Gentleman, Dying

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

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Girl, Lying, Drinking

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They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

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Girl, Tea, Ghost

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.

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Sky, Broken, Perfect

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