Libba Bray Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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