A Great And Terrible Beauty Quotes

#1. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

#2. 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

Libba Bray

#3. I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself ... I just need to feel something A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Libba Bray

#4. We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

#5. 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.

Libba Bray

#6. I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Libba Bray

#7. I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Libba Bray

#8. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Libba Bray

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

Libba Bray

#10. Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.

William Crain

#11. Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

Libba Bray

#12. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

Oscar Wilde

#13. In the beginning, there were dragons; proud, fience,and independent. Their scale were like gems and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible..!

Christopher Paolini

#14. One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Libba Bray

#15. Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.

Wayne White

#16. Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

Libba Bray

#17. Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

Elayne Boosler

#19. Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Italo Calvino

#20. You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridiculous organization. From now on, I shall do exactly as I wish and you cannot stop me. Do not follow. Do not watch. Do not even attempt to contact me or you'll be sorry indeed. Do you understand?

Libba Bray

#21. The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)

Amy Bloom

#22. 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.

Libba Bray

#23. Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God's I'd rather you didn't lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Libba Bray

#24. As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

Nathaniel Branden

#25. Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.

Neil L. Andersen

#26. Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway!

Libba Bray

#27. Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

Dawn French

#28. Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

Rice Anne