Libba Bray Quotes - Page 9

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• But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

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  Moving, Past, Choices

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1342, Delacorte Press

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• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

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  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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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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• Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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  Drink, Prohibition, I Can

  Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

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  Lying, Heart, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.

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  People, Sound, World

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.181, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

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  Missing, Michigan, Knuckles

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

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  Going Away, Looks, Mouths

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• I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

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  Eye, Men, Clouds

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.185, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

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  Wonder Woman, Wonder, Motto

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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• Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.

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  Memphis

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• Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

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  Librarian, Scholar, Accurate

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• It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

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  Missing, Affection, Enough

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

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  Art, Pain, Regret

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

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  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

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  Jobs, Realizing, Librarian

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• I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

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  School, Done, Acid

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

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  Girl, Art, Names

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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• The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.

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  Struggle, Fall, Blow

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

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  Mother, Strong, Disappointment

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

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  Sleep, Night, Knowing

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• Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?" It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg," Balder answers. Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.

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  Mother, Blessed, Weekend

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray (p. 318), 2009.

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• They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

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  Two, Long, Favors

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.65, Delacorte Press

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• No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.

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  Light, Trust Me, I Can

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.536, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

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  Feelings, Needs, Pages

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