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“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Women

“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?”

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“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

People , Truth

“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”

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“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 book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Love , Waiting

“The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Beauty , Horse

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Change , Time , Personality

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

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World , Faith , Hope

“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Passion

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Dreams , Evil

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

World , Time , Hurt

“I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.”

Libba Bray

Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me

People

“Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 338
Context: Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

Fate

“Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428
Context: In our travels, we have come across many equations — math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.