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• I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

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  Sorry, Dark, Hard Times

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

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  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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• People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

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  Lying, Thinking, People

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• There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.

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  Blind, Blind Faith, One Friend

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• Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

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  Dark, Library, Torches

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... 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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• Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

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  Life, Fire, Feds

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

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• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

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  Trying, Desperate, Not Sure

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• We create the illusions we need to go on.

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  Needs, Goes On, Illusion

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

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• I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

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  Stupid, Hopeful, World

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• People see what they want to see when they need to.

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  People, Needs, Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

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  War, Winning, Blood

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• It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

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  Believe, Who I Am, Long

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.313, Delacorte Press

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• A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

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  Real, Blue, Giving

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• Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

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  Soul, Tonight, Woods

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.290, Delacorte Press

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• They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

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  Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

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  Morning, Missing, Tomorrow

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• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

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  Mother, Hurt, Pain

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• The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

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  Mother, Brother, Honesty

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

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

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  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.

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  Want, Tvs

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• I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

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  Queens, Years, Done

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

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• What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

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  Queens, Believe, Opportunity

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.266, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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  Sorry, Thinking, Rewards

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.75, Delacorte Press

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• Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

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  Love You, Thinking, Goes On

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.691, Delacorte Press

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