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• There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

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  Believe

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• Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

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  Cutting, Naughty, Doe

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• But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

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  Noise, Made

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• She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

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  Girl, Middle, Fingers

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.118, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

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  Moving, People, Trying

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• Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

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  Stupid, Cry, Wanted

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

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  Color, Lines, Steps

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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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• Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

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  School, Thinking, Tools

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• There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

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  Character, Different, Path

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

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  Life, Running, Giving

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

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• Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

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  Secret, Want, Way

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.794, Delacorte Press

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• Will you punish me forever?

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  Forever

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

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  Moving, Past, Choices

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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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• War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

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  War, Winning, Blood

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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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• 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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• Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

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  Warning, Walks, Insufferable

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

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  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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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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