Libba Bray Quotes - Page 3

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• I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

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  Heart, Details, Bones

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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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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• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

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  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

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  Mother, Loss, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

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  Memories, Home, Dark

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

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• I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

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  Said, Critics, Internals

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• There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

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  Country, Together, Democracy

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• Judge not, lest ye be judged.

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  Judging, Judged

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

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  Facts

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.326, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

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  Moving, Gun, Men

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

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  Lying, People

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.332, Hachette UK

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• The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

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  Men, Museums, Glasses

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• People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

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  Believe, Order, People

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

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  Hands, Two, Gloves

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• Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

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  Mean

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.

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  Murder Mysteries, Fixed

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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  Drink, Prohibition, I Can

  Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.

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  Not Interested, Polite, Being Polite

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• Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

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  Mistake, Years, Miracle

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• People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

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  Fear, People, Prove

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

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  Girl, Want, Tall

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

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  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on your maxi pads.

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  Girl, Crush, Emo

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• I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

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  Together, I Can

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.206, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• People aren't always what you want them to be

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  People, Want, What You Want

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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