Libba Bray citations

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

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

“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.”

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

“We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.”

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

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

“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”

“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”

“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”

“The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”

“I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.”

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

“There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?… aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

“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.”

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”

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

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

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

“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.”

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.”

“Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.”