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A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray

A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. It is told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the year 1895.

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“The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.”

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“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”

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“I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.”

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“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.”

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“Women who have power are always feared.”

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“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”

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Variant: One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
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“How can my ankles and arms be obscene?”

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

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“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

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“I refuse to let the past find me here.”

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“He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”

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