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Libba Bray is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.

She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. After that she moved to New York City, where she now lives with her husband and fifteen-year-old son. Her father was a preacher and her mother was a teacher. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. March 1964
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Libba Bray Quotes

“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Women who have power are always feared.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity,” Sam said.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

The Diviners
Variant: i salute your spunk, but question your sanity.

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.

"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But… she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.”

Libba Bray

“Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Variant: Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
Source: Rebel Angels

“To each his own magic.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“‎Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“I refuse to let the past find me here.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?”

“The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked.

“You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“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.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“People aren't always what you want them to be”

Libba Bray

“What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

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

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

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

Libba Bray

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

“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.”

Libba Bray

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

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“All things are possible.”

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.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

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

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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners