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• So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

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  Drug, Feelings, Needs

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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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• How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

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  Care, Want, Matter

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, 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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• He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.

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  Heart, Mean, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1202, Delacorte Press

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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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• True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

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  And Love, Affection, Purity

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You're special. I'm special. The whole world's special, so don't you forget it. The universe wants us All to be happy, Full of smiles and all that stuff, All that stuff That's happy and smiley. So get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now!

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  Special, World, Want

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

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  Not Interested, Polite, Being Polite

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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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• 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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• How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

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  Ankles, Arms, Obscene

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

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  Scared, Stranger, I Can

  Libba Bray (2009). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway.

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  Prayer, Optimistic, Names

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

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  Lonely, Needs, Path

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Mistake

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• Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

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  Angel, Rebel, Wonder

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• Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.

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  Morning, Fall, Tears

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.536, Simon and Schuster

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• What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

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  Choices, What If, Trying

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

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• It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

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  Tragedy, Comedy, Laughable

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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