Libba Bray: Trending quotes

“When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“I change the world, the world changes me.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

“That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.”

Variant: We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.”

“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.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“All things are possible.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.”

“Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.”

“I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“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.”

“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”

“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing