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• Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

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  Men, Feelings, Bruises

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• One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

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  Moving, Moving Forward

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

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  Dark, Library, Torches

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• I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

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  Sorry, Dark, Hard Times

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

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  Stupid, Hopeful, World

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

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  Revenge, Hate, Love Is

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• May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

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  Queens, Nice, Believe

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.

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  Dream, Hands, Circles

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. 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. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

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  Horse, Mean, Tea

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• Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?

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  Girl, Cutting, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1487, Delacorte Press

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• Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

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  Hurt, Book, Heart

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• I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.

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  Dream, Real, Destiny

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.

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  People, Waiting, Following

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• No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.

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  Girl, Ambition, Glasses

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.

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  Blind, Blind Faith, One Friend

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• Does my new feminism make me look fat?

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  Feminism, Doe, Looks

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

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  Art, Pain, Regret

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

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• Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

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  Life, Fire, Feds

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

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• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

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  Trying, Desperate, Not Sure

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• People see what they want to see when they need to.

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  People, Needs, Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

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  Life And Love, Coffee, Guy

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.166, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

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  Fighting, Caves, World

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

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  Epidemics, Misery, Reaching

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.

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  Want, Firsts, What You Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• We create the illusions we need to go on.

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  Needs, Goes On, Illusion

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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