Libba Bray Quotes - Page 14

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• Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.

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  Waiting, Shore, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.

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  Pain, Hero, Guitar

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• Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

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  Thinking, White, Blue

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

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  Book, Love Life, Arrows

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• "Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

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  Men, Promise, Causes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

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  Worry, Memphis, His Smile

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• The world is a lie...not you and me.

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  Lying, World

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• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

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  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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• She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

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  Offering, People, Helping

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• You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

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  Long, Challenges, Facts

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• She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

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  Grief, Home, Waiting

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• I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

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  Wish, Want, Should

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

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  Uncles, Ties, Textbooks

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• A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

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  Prayer, Branches, Down And

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

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  Book, Garden, Deceit

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• The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

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  Shoes, Police, Helping

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• He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.

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  War, Lying, Fall

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• Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

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  Coffee, Book, Boys

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• There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

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  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1461, Delacorte Press

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• Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

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  Morning

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

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• Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

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  Names, Long, Laughing

  Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

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  Mind

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

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  Cry, Behave

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

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  Each Day, Littles, Wonder

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

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  Girl, Tea, Ghost

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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