Libba Bray Quotes - Page 9

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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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• Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

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  Lying, Heart, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.

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  People, Sound, World

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.181, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

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  Missing, Michigan, Knuckles

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

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  Going Away, Looks, Mouths

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• I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

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  Eye, Men, Clouds

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.185, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

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  Wonder Woman, Wonder, Motto

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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• Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.

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  Memphis

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• Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

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  Librarian, Scholar, Accurate

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• It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

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  Missing, Affection, Enough

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. 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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• A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

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  Life And Love, Coffee, Guy

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.166, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

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  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

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  Jobs, Realizing, Librarian

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• Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

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  Hurt, Book, Heart

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• I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

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  School, Done, Acid

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

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  Girl, Art, Names

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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• What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

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  British, Feels

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.94, Delacorte Press

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• Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

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  Past, Two, Creepy

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

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  Bows, Plus, Affected

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

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  Gentleman, Felicity, Available

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

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  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

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  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

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  Helping, Blushing, God Help Us

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

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  Girl, Sleep, Somewhere Else

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