Libba Bray Quotes - Page 4

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• Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

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  Love You, Wow, Winner

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• The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

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  Order, People, Support

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

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  Wind, Looks, Painful

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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 don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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  Sorry, Thinking, Rewards

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.75, Delacorte Press

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

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  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.

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  Fire

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.

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  Want, Tvs

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• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

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  Mother, Hurt, Pain

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• I change the world, the world changes me.

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  World, Changing The World

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

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  Cute, Girl, Boys

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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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• The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

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  Dark, Light, Bovine

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, 2009.

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• I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

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  Done, Feels, Knows

  Libba Bray (2007). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.743, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

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  Party, Evil, Genius

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.339, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

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  Emo, Band, Fisherman

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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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• 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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