Libba Bray Quotes

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

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

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

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

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.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

No one can live in the light all the time.

We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

To those who will see, the world waits.

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

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.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

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.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.