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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

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Girl, Eye, Looks

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

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Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

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Pieces, Way, Fruit

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She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

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Lying, Fighting, Giving

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

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Running, Crazy, Thinking

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You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot.

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Girl, Real, Kissing

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

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Grateful, People, Missing

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

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Baby, Stars, Memories

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Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.

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Girl, Littles, Hindi

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.659, Delacorte Press

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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

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Boys, Thinking, Transgender

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.365, Scholastic Inc.

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We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

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Space, News, World

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If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.

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Moving, Night, Secret

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.245, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

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Farewell, Apology, Men

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press

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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

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Yards, Warning, Jewelry

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.135, Delacorte Press

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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

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Hate, Eight, High Heels

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.36, Scholastic Inc.

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I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

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Book, Numbers, Giving

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The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

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Girl, Beer, Expression

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can’t really be friends.” “I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you’re stealing my boyfriend? That’s a step too far!

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Girl, Dog, House

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...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

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Guy, Stuff, Lasts

Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

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Doors, Shadow, Rooms

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She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

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Life, Country, Brother

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He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

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World, Heal, Wanted

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Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

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Live Life, Today, Lasts

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In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

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Stars, Math, Simple

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

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Whiskey, Drink, Sherry

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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