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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

“She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Write like it matters, and it will.”

Libba Bray

“It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.”

“He’s not dead; just very tired.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you… and you could change the magic.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?"
- "Beauty Queens”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“… I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“They have money and position and Ann has none. It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?"
"It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg," Balder answers.
"Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 318

“I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.”

Libba Bray

Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me

“I have an artificial left eye. I lost my real eye in a car accident when I was eighteen. In fact, I had to have my entire face rebuilt because I smashed it up pretty good. It took six years and thirteen surgeries. However, I did have the pleasure of freezing a plastic eyeball in an ice cube, putting it in a friend's drink, ("Eyeball in your highball?") and watching him freak completely. Okay, so maybe that's not going down on my good karma record. But it sure was fun.”

Libba Bray

Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me

“My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P. K. s — Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…”

Libba Bray

Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me