Libba Bray Quotes - Page 8

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• Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

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  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.

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  Good Night, Dream, Waiting

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

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  Long, Insanity, Mind

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• When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

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  Family, Home, Guilt

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• The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

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  Men, Museums, Glasses

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• There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

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  Country, Together, Democracy

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• I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

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  Said, Critics, Internals

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• Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on your maxi pads.

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  Girl, Crush, Emo

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• People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

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  Fear, People, Prove

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

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  Girl, Want, Tall

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

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  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

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  Mistake, Years, Miracle

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• In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

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  Moving, Gun, Men

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

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  World, Anarchy, Make Sense

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

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• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

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  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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• Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

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  Mean

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

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  Want

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.240, Delacorte Press

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• I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

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  Thinking, Dying, Because I Can

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.240, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

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  Notebook, Ideas, Heaven

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• It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

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  Self, Matter, Spirit

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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  Drink, Prohibition, I Can

  Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.

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  Heart, Mean, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1202, Delacorte Press

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• In every end, there is also a beginning.

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  Ends

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

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  Ethics, Vulture, Fewer

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• But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

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  Moving, Past, Choices

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1342, Delacorte Press

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