Libba Bray: Quotes about the world

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“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

Libba Bray

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

“To those who will see, the world waits.”

Libba Bray

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

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

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“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

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

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

Libba Bray

“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

“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.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“The world is a lie… not you and me.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“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.”

Libba Bray

“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

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

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners