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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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For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

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Girl, Lying, Drinking

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I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

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Eye, Gentleman, Dying

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

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Running, Sight, Where We Come

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Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French.

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Children, Party, Heart

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

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Sound, Gonzo, Gas

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.313, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

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Certain, Get Away, Knows

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

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Drunk, Irony, Sometimes

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Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.

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Eye, Cutting, Ohio

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

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Care, Want, Matter

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

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Differences, Needs, Discord

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

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Castles, Ninja, Just Saying

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.328, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

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Ashes, Stealing, Recalls

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

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School, Appreciate, Understanding

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

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Girl, Expectations, Want

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You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

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Angel, Order, Firsts

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Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

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Father, Fighting, Rocks

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

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Sorry, Mistake, People

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1216, Delacorte Press

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Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

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Magic, Protected, Knows

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1287, Delacorte Press

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It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

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Struggle, Trying, Skins

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

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Horse, Mean, Looks

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

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Terrible

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I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

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Doctors, Giving, Promise

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.77, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

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Girl, Powerful, Magic

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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

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Fighting, Trying, Purpose

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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