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“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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?”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Libba Bray

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing