Libba Bray Quotes - Page 17

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

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  Whiskey, Drink, Sherry

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a lie...not you and me.

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  Lying, World

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• "Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

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  Men, Promise, Causes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

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  Magic, Stories, Good Story

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

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  Book, Garden, Deceit

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• My cholera's acting up again.

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  Acting, Cholera

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The key holds the truth

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  Keys

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.

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  Night, Symphony, Comforting

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

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  Apples, Half, Arguing

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.226, Delacorte Press

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• All things are possible.

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  Wall, All Things

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.216, Delacorte Press

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• When I dream, I dream of him.

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  Dream

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• No one can live in the light all the time.

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  Light, Chiaroscuro

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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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 this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.

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  Moving, Night, Secret

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.245, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

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  Space, News, World

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• We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

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  Baby, Stars, Memories

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• I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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  Oracles, Librarian

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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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• 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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