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“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“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

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Libba Bray

“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

“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

“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

“All things are possible.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“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

“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

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

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

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

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

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

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“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