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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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“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.”

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

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“No one can steal our dream.”

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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?”

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“What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.”

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“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”

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“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”

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“My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.”

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“Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.”

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“I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.”

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