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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

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Heart, Details, Bones

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

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Honesty, Eye, Light

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.

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Pain, Storm, Desire

Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

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Believe, Order, People

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

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Son, Men, Different

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.605, Delacorte Press

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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

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Long, Insanity, Mind

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Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

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Son, Sacrifice, Acting

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Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

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Girl, Sorry, Thinking

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.

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Good Night, Dream, Waiting

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

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Family, Home, Guilt

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It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

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Self, Matter, Spirit

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

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Thinking, Dying, Because I Can

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.240, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

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Notebook, Ideas, Heaven

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In every end, there is also a beginning.

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Ends

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

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Said, Critics, Internals

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In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

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Moving, Gun, Men

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

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Mistake, Years, Miracle

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In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

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World, Anarchy, Make Sense

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

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You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

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Girl, Want, Tall

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

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Fear, People, Prove

Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.176, Hachette UK

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The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

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Men, Museums, Glasses

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There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

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Dream, War, Book

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

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Country, Together, Democracy

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You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

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Believe, Successful, People

Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

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Mean

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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