Libba Bray Quotes

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

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

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

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

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.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

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

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

I change the world, the world changes me.

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.

Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.

The key holds the truth

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

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.

When I dream, I dream of him.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

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.

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.

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

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

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

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Will you punish me forever?

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.