Libba Bray Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Believe

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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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• I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

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  Enough, Typhoid, Mary

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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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• The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

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  Doe, Drs, Lines

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.126, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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