Top 100 Bray'd Quotes
#1. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
John Milton
#2. There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.
Libba Bray
#4. Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
Matthew Collings
#5. I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.
Libba Bray
#6. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
Libba Bray
#7. 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.
Libba Bray
#8. But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
Libba Bray
#9. Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
Libba Bray
#10. You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
Libba Bray
#11. We've the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic's greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.
Libba Bray
#12. She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
Libba Bray
#13. Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia,
Libba Bray
#15. Ohmigosh. No food at all." Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. She blinked back tears. And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. "I am going to be so superskinny by pageant time!
Libba Bray
#16. Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
Libba Bray
#17. I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
Libba Bray
#18. 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
#19. You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
Libba Bray
#20. Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
Libba Bray
#21. Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
Tara Bray Smith
#22. It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
Mark Twain
#23. Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.
Libba Bray
#24. He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.
Libba Bray
#25. Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead."
"He's not dead; just very tired.
Libba Bray
#26. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.
Libba Bray
#27. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.
Libba Bray
#28. And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely.
Libba Bray
#29. How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
Libba Bray
#30. I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.
Libba Bray
#31. 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.
Libba Bray
#32. Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.
Libba Bray
#33. I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth."
"If I were the last man on earth it'd be because you drove the other poor suckers to early graves.
Libba Bray
#34. If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.
Libba Bray
#35. Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.
Libba Bray
#36. The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray ...
William Butler Yeats
#37. I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
Libba Bray
#38. I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
Libba Bray
#39. We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.
Libba Bray
#40. The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.
Libba Bray
#41. Look, I know this seems a little half-assed ... ' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.
Libba Bray
#42. 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
#43. You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I'd canonize you."
"The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
Libba Bray
#44. 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.
Libba Bray
#45. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
Libba Bray
#46. Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
Libba Bray
#47. Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
Libba Bray
#48. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.
Libba Bray
#49. I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.
Libba Bray
#50. She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
Libba Bray
#51. I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker."
"There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum.
"Really? What do you call them?"
"Alcoholics.
Libba Bray
#52. I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
Libba Bray
#53. There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.
Edward Lear
#54. Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
Libba Bray
#55. You evah hear of a magic screw?'
I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
Libba Bray
#56. Sometimes when Sam's pretending to be in love with me, my stomach does funny things."
"Well, get some milk of magnesia and stop it.
Libba Bray
#57. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
#58. Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore ... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more ...
Libba Bray
#59. They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
Libba Bray
#60. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.
Libba Bray
#61. I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
Libba Bray
#62. Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
Libba Bray
#63. She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
Libba Bray
#64. demanding what we want ignores the other person's sense of control and they will want to resist us.
Bob Bray
#65. My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Libba Bray
#66. My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.
Libba Bray
#67. What if I choose the dream instead?
Libba Bray
#68. 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.
Libba Bray
#69. Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way?
Kartik~What way?
Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit?
Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
Libba Bray
#70. 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?
Libba Bray
#71. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.
Libba Bray
#72. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.
Libba Bray
#73. When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
Libba Bray
#74. It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
Libba Bray
#75. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.
Libba Bray
#76. They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
Libba Bray
#77. He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
Libba Bray
#78. No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
Libba Bray
#79. Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.
Libba Bray
#80. She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone.
Libba Bray
#82. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!
Libba Bray
#83. Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don't have no nine lives.
Libba Bray
#84. I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
Libba Bray
#85. When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
Libba Bray
#86. sometimes a little crazy is all you need
Libba Bray
#87. It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.
Tim Bray
#88. You will remember me for what I truly am: A God!
Bray Wyatt
#89. 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.
Libba Bray
#90. Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
Libba Bray
#91. Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.
Libba Bray
#92. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
Libba Bray
#93. Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
Libba Bray
#94. Okay. That's fair. Abso-tive-ly fair. Let's say the tables were turned. If I were about to walk off a cliff, what would you do?"
Evie pursed her lips. "Push?"
"I don't believe that."
"You would on the way down.
Libba Bray
#95. Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.
Hillary Jordan
#96. Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another.
Peter Bray
#97. Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.
Carys Bray
#99. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
Libba Bray
#100. We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray
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