Libba Bray Quotes - Page 18

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

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  Live Life, Today, Lasts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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