Libba Bray Love Quotes

#1. This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship."
- "Beauty Queens

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#2. He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky

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#3. I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke ... ' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

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#4. However, it has come to our attention that there is a small safety "glitch" with the Git R Done 447, which might cause it to fire too soon or even randomly, accidentally killing someone you love. Awkward, we know.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. Not interested. Love's messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

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#7. I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves.

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#8. People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous," Will said. "There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

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#9. I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

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#10. Evie narrowed her eyes. "A time limit. Four weeks of the swooniest, swellest romance New York City has ever seen. And then, kaput. Over and out. Off the air."
"Golly, when you say it like that, it sounds as if our love's not real, Lamb Chop.

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#11. It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.

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#12. He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.

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#13. Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for?

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#14. To live is to love, to love is to live.

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#15. Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

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#16. Sometimes, Johannes would pop his head in the filing room and ask, "Need anything?"
'Yes. I would like you to ravage me here on the floor and swear your undying love to me.'"No. Thanks. I'm good.

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#17. Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if first we know were to look without flinching.

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#18. Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

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#19. I love you for who you are, not for who the world thinks you should be.

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#20. 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.

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#21. True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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 ...

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#25. 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.

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#26. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

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#31. 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.

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#32. We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.

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#33. I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

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#34. 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!

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#35. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

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#36. Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

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#37. Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider - he is a bit of a killjoy.

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#38. 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

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#39. What
you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?"
- "Beauty Queens

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#40. It is the taste of forgetting. Of sleep and dreams with no waking. Never to long or yearn, to struggle or hurt or love or desire ever again. And I understand that this is what it truly means to lose your soul.

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