Libba Bray citations

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“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History”

“Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.”

“Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.”

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”

“When I dream, I dream of him.”

“A place to keep all your secrets”

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”

“People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”

“I can be whatever.
You can be whatever.
We can be whatever.
Whatever, together.”

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

“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”

“In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.”

“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.”

“Hold up. How do youhave sex with somebody?” Adina scoffed. “Is she all, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t see your penis there’?”

“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”

“Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?”

“You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.”

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

“Dammit!"
"What?" Gonzo sounds panicked.
"We're out of gas."
"You're Shithenging me."
"I Shithenge you not.”

“Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.”

“What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?”

“'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.'
- 'Ready for what?'
- He smiles big. 'Exactly.”

“Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.”

“The world is a lie… not you and me.”

“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.”

“We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”

“Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.”