Libba Bray Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

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  Home, Squares, Doe

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• A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

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  Real, Blue, Giving

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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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• I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

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  Class, Tables, Needed

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.81, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

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  Dream, Home, Land

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

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  Boys, Fur, Phony

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• Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.

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  Girl, Kissing, Ohio

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• There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

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  Ordinary, Opinion, Sucker

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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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• 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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• Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

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  Morning, Missing, Tomorrow

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• Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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  Mother, Drinking, Prohibition

  "The Diviners". Book by Libba Bray, September 18, 2012.

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• She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

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  Dream, Ghost, Inconsequential

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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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• 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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• 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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• Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Fire

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.263, Delacorte Press

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