Libba Bray Quotes

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I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

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We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

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

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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

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She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally's fresh cup of coffee.

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Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

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Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine?

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Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

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You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real. -Going Bovine

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On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.

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This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship." - "Beauty Queens

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

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We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

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

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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

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Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

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Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P. K. s — Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…

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Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

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Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

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She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn't want to seem like an easy mark. If you must know, I've come to join a convent, Evie said, testing him.

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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.

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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.

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In this man's smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. Just come with me. We'll take care of you. No, you won't. Taylor stroked the man's cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

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

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I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

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I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

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