Top 100 Libba Bray Quotes
#1. There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.
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#2. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.
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#3. My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
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#4. If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
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#5. I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
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#8. Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.
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#11. She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
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#12. 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.
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#14. Evie winked at Sam and he whispered low in her ear, making her neck tingle. Sister, together, we could be a hell of a team.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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
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#17. 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.
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#18. But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
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#19. 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
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#20. You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
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#21. 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.
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#22. She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
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#23. Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia,
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#25. 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!
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#26. 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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#27. She is the elephant's eyebrows," Evie whispered appreciatively. "Those jewels! How her neck must ache."
"That's why Bayer makes aspirin," Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn't immune to the dazzle of a movie star.
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#28. Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.
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#29. I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.
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#30. I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two.
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#31. In every end, there is also a beginning.
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#32. 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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#33. We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
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#34. But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect? ... aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?
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#35. And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.
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#36. 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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#37. No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
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#38. If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.
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#39. Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
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#40. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.
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#41. Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
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#42. Does my new feminism make me look fat?
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#43. Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.
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#44. I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.
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#45. You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
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#46. And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
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#47. Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?"
"Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
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#48. It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it
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#49. I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?
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#50. 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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#51. 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.
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#52. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
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#53. We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
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#54. My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
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#55. Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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#56. You evah hear of a magic screw?'
I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
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#57. 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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#58. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
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#59. 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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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
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#63. Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#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.
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#67. What if I choose the dream instead?
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#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.
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#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.
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#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?
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#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.
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#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.
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#73. When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
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#74. It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
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#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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
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#78. 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!
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#79. You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
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#80. Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.
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#86. 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.
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#87. No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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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#91. 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!
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#92. Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don't have no nine lives.
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#93. I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
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#94. When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
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#95. sometimes a little crazy is all you need
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#96. 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.
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#97. Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
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#98. 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.
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#99. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
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#100. Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
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