Libba Bray Quotes page 4

“Does my new feminism make me look fat?”

Source: Rebel Angels

“Everything is randomly connected.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?'
It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.”

Source: Going Bovine

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”

Source: Rebel Angels

“I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.”

Source: The Diviners

“Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”

Source: The Diviners

“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”

Source: Going Bovine

“There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.”

Source: The Diviners

“Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?"

"What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said.

"Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.”

“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.”

Source: The Diviners

“I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.”

“… I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.”

Source: Going Bovine

“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”

Source: Rebel Angels

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”

Source: Going Bovine

“Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.”

Source: The Diviners

“This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”

“Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front?
- Yes - I have warned them all.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.”

Source: Rebel Angels

“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.””

Source: Lair of Dreams

“Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.”

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 365

“The key holds the truth”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.”

Source: The Diviners

“Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?"

"To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!"

"You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.”

Source: Going Bovine

“You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit.

“No fella can hold me for long.”

Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?”

“No. A statement of fact.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?”

Source: The Diviners

“They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.”

Source: Going Bovine

“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

Source: The Diviners

“Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker."
"What are you going to motivate people to do?"
Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational… stuff.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Will you punish me forever?”

Source: Beauty Queens

“Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.”

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.”

Source: Going Bovine

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

Source: Rebel Angels

“We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan,” he’d said.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”

Source: Lair of Dreams

“Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.”

“No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty