Libba Bray Quotes - Page 4

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

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  Hurt, Hard Times, Appreciate

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

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  Home, Corporations, Pants

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.375, Scholastic Inc.

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• - So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.

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  Beautiful, Wife, Fortune

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

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  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

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  Love You, Thinking, Goes On

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.691, Delacorte Press

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• Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

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  Stoners, Conversation

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• Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

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  Soul, Tonight, Woods

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.290, Delacorte Press

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• The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

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  Fog, Our Future, Breaths

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• How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

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  People, Choices, Different

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• Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

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  Desert, Misery, Ends

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

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  Book, Reading, Ignorance

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• HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.

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  Dream, Heart, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.56, Scholastic Inc.

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• Truth casts a spell of its own.

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  Casts, Spells

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

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• In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

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  Girl, Moving, School

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

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  Powerful, Opiates, Might

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

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  Sadness, Profound, Moments

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

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  Queens, Years, Done

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

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  Girl, Knives

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

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  Queens, Believe, Opportunity

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.266, Scholastic Inc.

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• The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

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  Mother, Brother, Honesty

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

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  Thinking, Lasts, Should

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.97, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. “Really? What do you call them?” “Alcoholics.

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  People, Mind, Want

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• When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Warrior

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

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  Dream, Reality, Differences

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• DiscomfortWear™, shapewear designed to eliminate rills, ripples, and muffin tops. In some cases known to eliminate circulation and breathing. If you’re not uncomfortable, it’s not DiscomfortWear™.

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  Breathing, Muffins, Cases

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