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• Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

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  Believe, Might, Poet

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• She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

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  Girl, Middle, Fingers

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.118, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

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  Moving, Past, Choices

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• No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

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  Girl, Knives

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

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  Wind, Looks, Painful

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• How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

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  People, Choices, Different

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• Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

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  Boys, Fur, Phony

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

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  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

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  Class, Tables, Needed

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

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  Fighting, Caves, World

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

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  Order, People, Support

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

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  Ordinary, Opinion, Sucker

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• She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

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  Dream, Ghost, Inconsequential

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• Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

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  Stoners, Conversation

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• Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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  Mother, Drinking, Prohibition

  "The Diviners". Book by Libba Bray, September 18, 2012.

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• The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

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  Fog, Our Future, Breaths

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• There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

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  Sadness, Profound, Moments

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

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  Hurt, Hard Times, Appreciate

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

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• ...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

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  Dream, Reality, Differences

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

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  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

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  Emo, Band, Fisherman

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• I change the world, the world changes me.

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  World, Changing The World

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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