Libba Bray Quotes

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

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.

I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.

Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

Everything is randomly connected.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

To live is to love, to love is to live.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

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

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.

Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

"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."

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

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

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

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.

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.