Libba Bray Quotes - Page 18

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

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  Offering, People, Helping

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• Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

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  Coffee, Book, Boys

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• You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

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  Long, Challenges, Facts

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• Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

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  Live Life, Today, Lasts

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• Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

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  Thinking, White, Blue

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

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  British, Feels

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.94, Delacorte Press

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

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  Lying, World

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

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  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

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  School, Exercise, Class

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

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• She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

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  Grief, Home, Waiting

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• Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

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  Pieces, Way, Fruit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

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  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1461, Delacorte Press

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