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You have a steady fella? Sam asked after a bit. No fella can hold me for long. Sam gave her a sideways glance. That a challenge? No. A statement of fact.
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We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?
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Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
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Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?
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- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.
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Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.
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People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.
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It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.
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There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
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I'm from the health department. You've heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella's got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
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Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
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Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.
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"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."
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You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Libba Bray
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Born:
March 11, 1964
(age 60)
Bio:
Libba Bray is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.
Known for:
The Diviners (2012)
A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003)
Beauty Queens (2011)
Gemma Doyle Trilogy (2010)
Lair of Dreams (2015)
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