Libba Bray Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• ...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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• It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

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  Husband, Purity, Freshness

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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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• 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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• 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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• Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

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  Children, Book, Python

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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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