Libba Bray: Want

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“I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“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

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

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.”

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“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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“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

“I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

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.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.”

“There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum.

“Really? What do you call them?”

“Alcoholics.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

“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.”

Libba Bray

Source: Beauty Queens

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

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine