Libba Bray Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Libba Bray
Libba Bray Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
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
She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!
I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
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
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.
I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.
This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.
Miss Teen Dreamers. It is time to get ahold of ourselves. Miss Alabama, I did not mean that literally. That is gross. Stop it. Taylor
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?
When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.
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.
"Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
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.
I'm from the health department. You've heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella's got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough."
Tiara looked confused. "But ... it always has been.
Tiara looked confused. "But ... it always has been.
Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
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 ...
I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.
God help us all.
No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.
I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing.
Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.
Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.
When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.
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.
Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.
I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who. Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
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.
Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.
My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese.
Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.